Electricity bill update as ministers slammed for making 'no progress'
Ministers need to do more to ensure people see the benefits of climate action in their bills, the Government's independent advisers on climate change have warned. The Climate Change Committee (CCC), which has released its first assessment of the new Government's progress on reducing emissions, said making electricity cheaper will help people feel the benefits of the green transition...
It added that its first recommended action last year to make electricity cheaper "has not yet seen any progress".
It isn't easy to comment on this kind of story. We have to begin with the problem that 'no progress' is a ludicrously optimistic assessment of several decades of lost opportunities, colossally wasteful spending and ridiculously naïve propaganda.
To our lasting shame, analysing this kind of garbage is not dissimilar to analysing a political speech by the leadership of any totalitarian country.
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“… the benefits of climate action in their bills…”
What would those benefits be, I wonder? That the bills are now a lot higher than they used to be or need to be, and that they’re going to go higher still?
Those kinds of benefits?
Feh.
There's the 'Magic Money Tree' myth which is increasingly ridiculed. Only to be replaced by the 'Cheap Energy Through Renewals' myth.
Politicians do like their myths and they resist mightily any debunking of them. Which seems contrary to the function we expect of them.
One can but sigh, AKH.
Our parents outlasted communism; our children have been taken over by it.
Peter - weird isn't it? Like offering one for the price of two.
DJ - yes, as if myths are the easy way out of their own incompetence.
James - that's about it these days.
Tammly - yes they have. Different name but we're well on the way to the same thing.
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