At last government Ministers agree there could be shortages of jet fuel in the summer holiday season. They should know, because their high taxes, high energy prices and carbon tax policies have closed two refineries leaving us only 4. Both Lindsey and Grangemouth were important suppliers of jet fuel to UK airports. The government in its mad net zero way wanted to stop that and import it instead, taking its production out of our CO 2 figures to put into another country. Now it is getting difficult to get hold of imports that doesn’t look so smart.
Ministers say they are talking to remaining refiners to see if they can get more jet fuel fractions out of the oil they are processing. They should open negotiations with the new owners of Lindsey and the owners of Grangemouth to see what changes to carbon taxes and general taxes would get them to restart their works before they set about demolishing or re purposing. The UK needs these refineries. It would add employment, some extra tax revenue and some more reliable fuel supplies if they did a deal. They also need to lighten the tax and price load on the remaining 4 refineries as they could close as well if they get into heavy losses.
It would also be a good idea to add to our oil production at the same time and encourage UK supply contracts to UK refineries to add further to security of supply.
How many more times do we have to warn them of the huge damage they are doing to UK industry and to UK national security?
May 4, 2026
In all honesty if it grounds the political class it’s almost worth it.
Certainly they will not understand that actions have consequences until they suffer a consequence.
May 4, 2026
Agree completely. Another note of concern is that US Jet A imports are not currently allowed, presumably because they fall foul of emissions.. BA and others are lobbying for this to be cast aside as it would obviously be of immediate benefit.
This country is a festival of own goals.
May 4, 2026
Don’t hold your breath. Mad milibrains will see this as a positive. Less flights for the plebs but no shortage of jet fuel for never here Kier and his acolytes.
The government doesn’t want these refineries to reopen the ruinous taxes we’re meant to close them down.
We are now getting a ring side seat as to the folly of net zero. Yesterday evening gas and nuclear were providing over 50% of our electricity and we were Importing 22%.. Can no one stop thos madness.
May 4, 2026
Do your bit to pontificate how everyone shouldn’t use fossil fuels and perhaps you too could earn some sanctimony credits, so you can jet around whilst everyone else can’t.
May 4, 2026
It is hard to believe that this Government, Miliband and his “experts” are really so dim and deluded that they actually believe the insane agenda they push can make any economic, climate or environmental sense. So what/who is really pushing this lunacy? Do they actually want to damage the UK economy as much as possible, are they “influence” by people on the make in some way?
But then it was also pushed by Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Boris + deluded wife, Sunak and now Starmer and from the EU and King Charles. Where is this group think insanity coming from? It is certainly is not rational science. But then neither was Covid Lockdown or the Covid duff “vaccines” coerced even into to young people and people who had already had Covid who were at virtually zero risk from Covid! Nearly all the blob though the ERM was a great plan too. So what drives this serial government knows best lunacy?
May 4, 2026
I keep hearing “The Government is opening lots a community diagnostic centres…the NHS fit for the future adverts” might there be an election coming? They do not quite say vote Labour Is this political advertising with tax payers money legal?
Will they drop all these expensive adverts after the election? Then perhaps spend the money dealing with the NHS’s appalling delays. It is not as if many people have much choice but to use the NHS. They have millions of people already diagnosed and now on waiting lists this often for many years unable to get the treatments and operations they need.
Often many needing operations are not on the waiting lists as they restrict entry to the lists for political reasons with delaying tactics you need this test or scan first before we can put you on the list and the wait for that is six months, then an another consultant appointment another 5 months… then perhaps on the two year list!
May 4, 2026
Perhaps they have been taking advice from Sir (or is is Lord yet) Sadiq Kahn who seem to think the whole of Transport for London advertising budget should be used for a vast advert for himself:- To the Mayor of London every journey matters they endlessly state! That plus their “intrusive staring” is a form of sexual harassment and will not be tolerated on the network adverts!
May 4, 2026
One has to accept that rational argument about the common good does not work with most of our politicians. They are wedded to net zero or chained to it by greater powers (WEF, EU, Bilderberg Group – whatever murky forum actually calls the shots).
Net zero is part of the agenda to impoverish and control us all, an agenda the existence of which AI vehemently insists is a “conspiracy theory”. That in itself is good reason to suspect it exists, let alone our lived experience of destructive policies being pushed upon us on clearly spurious grounds.
Reply Net zero is not a conspiracy of a few billionaires. It is the religion and culture of a whole European political class. It is open, embedded in international treaties and EU laws which too many UK Ministers and MPs have gone along with and kept in place after Brexit. If only it were a back room conspiracy of the few it would be easier to overcome. The wicked few in part go along with net zero to stay influential with the political class.
May 4, 2026
How many more times do we have to warn them of the huge damage they are doing to UK industry and to UK national security?
You would have thought that after the Second World War we would have learnt something but NO, we are still highly dependent on other countries to keep us going even though we had survived hundreds of years without avocados and green bananas, the same as happened with oil/coal/steel/fish and now jet fuel all in the name of net zero/ climate change/ ozone emissions these politicians have really taken us for mugs in any colour over the years it’s all a myth like Unicorns/Centaurs and gods like Zeus the sooner people wake up and smell the coffee the faster we can get back onto the road to recovery
May 4, 2026
Why would the Net Zero Fanatics who infest the Establishment, currently fronted by Red Ed, want to encourage more jet fuel production in the UK?
Look at the UK Fires Website. https://ukfires.org/industry/transport/
Their ambition is to destroy it completely. Flying (presumably apart from the Prize Pigs) is to be banned.
“International freight & Aviation: We currently have no non-emitting freight ships, so there is an urgent need for exploration of means to electrify ship power, and options to transfer to electric rail. This would require an enormous expansion in international rail capacity. There are no options for zero-emissions flight in the time available for action, so the industry faces a rapid contraction.”
They are getting the rapid contraction they desire!
The lunatics at UK Fires are funded by the British Government (and the last one).
May 4, 2026
On Saturday evening there was major disruption to the trains and the Elizabeth line was totally suspended for much of the evening with effects stretching as far as Birmingham. The cause – a sudden dip in the national grid frequency to 49.6Hz which is thought caused by a sudden drop of solar generation when the skies clouded over. The newer trains on those lines cannot cope it seems with these frequency drops, just like what happened in 2019 when we had an even greater drop. This shows how close we are coming to disaster with our power generation and ‘Net Zero’. Very little in the media about this, let us hope we soon hear the truth.