Re: This should make people happy
@Mooseman
"As usual with your ramblings you are unable to actually form a sentence without trying to be offensive"
You consider greenies to be offensive? What new term should we be using to describe people of that ideological bent?
"Fracking, as you know perfectly well, was not and is not a solution to our energy issues."
Why? If we want to be running gas powered generation to back up all that green energy tech that is unreliable then we need gas.
"The fact that local groups didnt want polluted water sources and (probably very minor but man made) earthquakes for a very dubious return is not really why freacking never got going."
Except there seems little risk of polluted water and the earthquake propaganda has nothing to do with the almost non-existent tremors as the limit for fracking is extremely low while other drilling activities it is much higher. Ed Davey (lib dem) was very publicly proud of stopping fracking which was the goal, not about any 'problems'-
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/wgmny1ph6hvfwmlhn6nfvyo0wf478w
"When gas prices started rocketing (before the Russian invasion of Ukraine) the UK was the one suffering rapidly increasing consumer costs, unlike most other countries. Your obsession with anything "green" being bad is embarrassing, really - yes Germany was subsidising fuel costs, which was rather my point in the first place."
So your point is that gas prices were going up. The UK was increasing consumer costs but others such as Germany was increasing consumer costs on the tax payers. And you can get upset that I point out the unreliable techs failings but we need gas for when the monuments to a sky god dont provide power. Germany had to subsidise fossil fuel to keep the lights on after screwing the market to support 'green tech' that didnt work. You should be embarrassed at still not getting this.
"More sensible countries like France and Germany didnt see why the costs of a rampaging gas market should be borne by the consumer, unlike the UK."
The costs shouldnt fall onto the people using it? Wtf?? And you dont seem to realise that it is on the customer as they are the tax payers. 25% of the UK energy bill was green madness. That is on top of government subsidy and market manipulation to force the use of unreliables and requiring gas as a backup. Your idea of sensible is madness.