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
But they will never be grounded; their work is far too important. They will just switch to private jets, which are exempt from many of the flying taxes we have to pay.
May 4, 2026
A pleasing thought Lynn – perhaps ‘Never Here Keir’ will get grounded whilst on one one of his many overseas jaunts. The RN could send a ship to rescue him and that might take a year or two (especially in warm waters)
But would anyone notice his absence?
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
They were all implementing UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 …. and still are.
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
But if you scratch the surface you find it all stems from the UN and promoted by Soros. Their own propaganda admits it’s designed to deindustrialise the west in favour of the BRICs. Like most conspiracy theories it turns out to be true.
Trump is exposing the stupidity hence the backlash from western leaders enslaved to this ideology.
So much has been invested/wasted on this scam that the uniparty dare no’t admit the truth.
Reply There is no uniparty. Conservatives are pro more of our own oil and gas and cheaper energy. I have been to many UK Parliament/ govt net zero type meetings. Soros never mentioned, never present. EU derived laws drive it all.
May 4, 2026
Correct. The “driver” is the UN. The WEF (Globalist Corporations) and EU are the implementers.
UN
EU / WEF / IMF
UK
In that order. There is NOTHING democratic about it.
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
Indeed:
The first two paragraphs on your link:
“Rail: The great efficiency of electric rail travel suggests a significant expansion in this area, domestically and internationally, is likely and would see high demand. The most efficient electric trains are aerodynamically efficient, like those designed for the highest speed operation today, but travelling at lower speeds.”
When you take account of the end connections, track maintenance, staff, indirect routes trains are rarely more efficient than cars and certainly not full cars which can go directly from A to B with up to 7 people and needing no professional drivers or staff. If trains are so efficient whey do they charge about £1 a mile per person when a car can be as low as £0.05 p per person mile and you have fewer miles too as direct door to door. So estimate of the grid expansion needed to connect up all the new spread out & often remote “renewables” and cope with the extra demand for EVs and heat pumps is up to 300 times as much grid wiring.
“Road vehicles: The transition to electric cars is already well under-way, and with increasing demand, costs will presumably fall. We already have targets for phasing out non electric vehicles, but by 2050 will have only 60% of the electricity required to power a fleet equivalent to that in use today. Therefore we will either use 40% fewer cars or they will be 60% the size. Development of auto-grade steels from recycling is a priority, and the need to control recycled metal quality may require changed models of ownership. The rapid expansion of lithium battery production may hit short-term supply constraints and create environmental concerns at end-of-life unless efficient recycling can be developed.”
The increasing demand is not real demand but government enforced demand by market rigging. They clearly plan to push people on to electricity (heat pumps, EV…) but not have sufficient electricity (or grid capacitiy) for these. So people will be cold and immobile. The dope (obviously not a competent engineer or physicist) who wrote this assumes that cars 60% of the size use only 60% of the electricity of a full size car. This is not remotely true (more like 15% less) and how will we get the family and luggage in a car 60% of the size? Take two cars I assume for that will be a 70% increase! Note also that EVs in general create more CO2 not less anyway and also cost far more per mile (in finance and depreciation costs) than just keeping your old car running does!
May 4, 2026
Also on this link under The Strategy;- “To achieve zero-emissions we need holistic strategy and policy along the supply chain which can place resource efficiency at the heart of industrial strategy. In response UK FIRES will develop new holistic analysis, benchmarks and standards to release climate resilient goods and businesses. We aim to support holistic industrial strategies and supply chains UK FIRES academic partners will create responsive strategic analysis tools. Living Lab industrial partners will apply these findings through the generation of new business models in collaboration with our Policy Champion.”
Well what a moronic meaningless sentence – clearly we can never achieve zero-emission unless we all stop breathing and even then we would rot and emit all sort of things! Why would we want to achieve zero-emissions of CO2 anyway it is tree, crop and plant food anyway?
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.
May 4, 2026
Yes, on Saturday the wind dropped and the sun vanished and we had to import 25% of our electricity to maintain frequency. This is the absolute maximum and because many ccgt plants were shutdown it took hours for them to be available. Just another short sited consequences of stupid net zero policies.
May 4, 2026
+1
May 4, 2026
+1 perhaps a major grid collapse is what is needed to get rid of the Ed Miliband agenda. It would of course kill people. The April 2025 Iberian Peninsula power outage caused several deaths in Spain and Portugal, with reports suggesting at least seven to eight fatalities directly or indirectly linked to the blackout. This was not even a particularly large grid failure.
May 4, 2026
I was in Spain when this happened, and it took down everything that didn’t have its own generating system. I think people will be amazed when it happens here, which it will. You are right that it will take a huge power outage to bring the majority out of their complacent way of life.