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codejunky Silver badge

Re: What *customer* wants this?

Unfortunately it isnt the energy companies pushing for this change its the government (since labour). Simply the energy policy has been so bad in this country we are leaving ourselves short on power.

This started with Blair and his Co2 agreement (to the shock of his advisor's) which shuts down our power stations but then continues with their pursuit of 'green energy' which has turned out less than green and a lot less energy. Of course this pushes up the price of energy and their solution- winter fuel allowance. So after a campaign against the big 6 (no wonder they dont want to play nice) the gov has finally started to reduce the subsidies for tech that isnt viable, only for people to cry out that solar businesses are going out of business (they exist only because they suck on public money that could go to any actual public service!).

Watching the continuing train wreck of this countries energy policy makes me wonder how long until we have brown outs and then black outs. The good news is we can still buy energy (expensive) from the French who at least have a reliable supply.

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