Express.
BELEAGUERED Energy Secretary Chris Huhne yesterday committed Britain to “exceptionally ambitious” cuts in carbon emissions despite warnings that they could help double domestic energy bills in a decade.Yes, prepare to be crucified by your energy bills in order to stop
Mr Huhne, who is fighting for his political life over allegations about speeding points, said that by 2025 Britain will have halved its greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels.
That is a significant expansion of the previous pledge to cut emissions by 34 per cent by 2020.
He also announced plans to develop giant offshore wind turbines, which would be nearly as tall as Big Ben.
Mr Huhne overcame Cabinet resistance to push through the plan and make Britain the first country in the world to make legally binding commitments to slash emissions in the 2020s.
But critics warned that the consumer will have to foot the bill. Mark Todd, director of price comparison service Energyhelpline.com, said the drive would cost households around £10.8billion a year extra by 2020, taking the average bill from £1,150 to £1,600.
He warned: “Fuel scarcity, political turmoil and natural disasters will drive this figure even higher and it would not be beyond the bounds of possibility to see bills almost double to £2,000 by 2020. Once again the ordinary consumer is ending up footing the bill.”
Price comparison site uSwitch.com also warned that annual energy bills could hit £1,600 within nine years.
Ann Robinson, director of consumer policy, said: “By 2020 the average bill will have rocketed by nearly £500. This doesn’t even take into account any price rises.
“Today’s announcement could be the death knell for cheap energy.”
Others feared big business would be driven abroad. The Civitas think-tank said the plans would create the “highest energy costs in the world” and send turnover worth £60billion and 600,000 jobs “up in smoke”.
Half baked, ill thought out, useless solutions to a problem that might not even exist.
As Lord Monckton put it...
Couldn't have put it better myself, the lights are going out soon.“the largest tax increase in human history” driven “by blind, superstitious faith”.
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Two years ago 35,000 elderly people died in this Country over the winter. Probably a similar number last year. This twat is going to be responsible for the death of many more.
Whenever something is totally illogical
follow the money.
He is a Westminster politician.
Who is paying him.
I'm groaning already over this. The utter gall of people like this committing billions of our money to something we don't believe in.
We usually have public enquiries and consultation over major expenditure such as HS2, airport expansion, etc.
Yet here is something that is going to cost us many times more, and not a hint of any enquiry or consultation, Just a decision by one man.
Democracy??
Well that's not good for us!I hate when they do that!
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