Goatmasterfunk
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Goatmasterfunk
@Goatmasterfunk
My own personal views, and never my employer’s. Challenging mediocre public services including but not limited to railways, councils, politicians and mayors
Katılım Nisan 2009
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When my home battery arrives, I'll be running my house at 5.49p/kWh the whole day.
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@LoftusSteve @JeremyCordite @RichardJMurphy They continue to not only spout this nonsense, but ignore anyone who corrects them
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@RichardJMurphy Gas does not set the price of electricity. Gas only sets the wholesale price of electricity.
You made a key error right away.
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Why gas sets the price of electricity, and why the economics behind it makes no sense taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/1…
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@Keir_Starmer Tolerating Islam, overlooking noncing, indulging a truant, prioritising foreigners, mourning ayatollahs, subjugating your country to the EU. They are not British values: they're the values of a comprised cuck.
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@KathrynPorter26 @SeanMagee @DaleVince Number 3) They’re all ignoring it - and the jobs it creates! I’m sure the same people were not so long ago, gushing about Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund!
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Nonsense
1. There is no global price
2. Imports displace LNG, the most expensive gas source and reduces the frequency with which it sets the price therefore cutting imports absolutely will cut prices and therefore bills
3. We earn significant taxes on our own production, plus through the major supply chains supporting it. The additional taxes could be used to cut bills eg by moving more policy costs to taxation or to fund cuts to the fuel duty
It's just not true that increasing our production wouldn't save us "a single penny"
And some new production eg tiebacks can come on pretty quickly
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Ratcliffe is incoherent - all of the oil and gas we produce here in Britain is sold at the global market price. No amount of oil produced here can in that case save us a single penny. Importing fossil fuels does not mean we pay more. Drilling in the north sea will take years to deliver globally priced fossil fuels and Rosebank will cost nearly £3 Bn in tax payer subsidies to it’s Norwegian owners - and….none of the oil will land here in Britain. So what sense is Ratcliffe making here, other than to shareholders in Rosebank and other oil companies.
This is another fossil fuel crisis and we can’t solve it or help ourselves at all - by pouring more oil onto it.
telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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@evmanuk @OctopusEnergy Don’t show it to petrol drivers.
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New @OctopusEnergy Intel Go rates! 🤯
That’s half of what I’ve paid for the past year or so! HALF!!!
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@au_tom_otive How does it feel sharing Rachel Reeves’ brain?
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Thomas (good name BTW), rather than only asking for the opinions of your followers, would some facts help?
Any new North Sea oil would not lower the price you just paid at the pump.
Thomas Skinner ⚒@iamtomskinner
I’d like to know all your opinions in the comments? I’ve just paid £1.70 a litre for diesel. Why are we not opening up our gas and oil field in the North Sea? Surely by opening these and sourcing from our own reserves, we will bring our prices of fuel down, energy costs down, create jobs, bring revenue and tax into the UK economy that can be spent on the roads, the NHS, UK services and schools. We continue to source our fuel from abroad and it makes no sense to me! We should be backing our UK manufacturing and not let it go abroad! We live in very uncertain times especially what’s going on in the Middle East. Love to hear your opinion, let’s back Britain 🇬🇧 - Bosh ❤️
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@LowCarbonD61778 @Conservatives @reformparty_uk Are you deliberately ignoring the tax revenue, profit selling to the market, job creation etc?
Do you harvest solar energy and export the excess to earn some £££ for yourself? Of course you do.
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The North Sea is already fully exploited. It makes no difference whether Norway Equinor or another big foreign oil company pump it out, it’s the same price for uk bill payers!! @Conservatives and @reformparty_uk pretending anything different are fooling you!!
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@nickofnz That machine doesn't work 60% of the time. It's why the left loves them.
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@RachelReevesMP AI needs vast amounts of energy. Our energy is too expensive
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This government will make the UK the best place in the world for quantum and AI companies to start, scale and stay.
In a changing world, our economic plan is the right one.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@colinwalker79 Then why are US energy prices substantially cheaper?
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Short answer - no
To quote the University of Oxford: “the idea that draining the North Sea would make the UK more energy secure or significantly save on household bills is sheer fantasy”
Thomas Skinner ⚒@iamtomskinner
I’d like to know all your opinions in the comments? I’ve just paid £1.70 a litre for diesel. Why are we not opening up our gas and oil field in the North Sea? Surely by opening these and sourcing from our own reserves, we will bring our prices of fuel down, energy costs down, create jobs, bring revenue and tax into the UK economy that can be spent on the roads, the NHS, UK services and schools. We continue to source our fuel from abroad and it makes no sense to me! We should be backing our UK manufacturing and not let it go abroad! We live in very uncertain times especially what’s going on in the Middle East. Love to hear your opinion, let’s back Britain 🇬🇧 - Bosh ❤️
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@colinwalker79 We’d immediately generate more tax revenue from drilling our own. This could be used to reduce the import and processing costs of gas, LNG, oil from overseas.
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@AndyFitchet Minimum wage is useless if your employer lays you off because of Labour policy towards businesses. You’ve seen unemployment figures, right?
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In April, energy prices will come *down* £117 a year and minimum wage will go *up* £950 a year. Making someone on minimum wage £1067 a year better off.
This Labour govt, like all govt’s, has made mistakes but not doing enough to tackle the cost of living isn’t one of them.
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@lancelachlan 2/3 of our consumer price is renewables subsidies and taxes. Gas only affects the wholesale market price and the wholesale price is only 1/3 of the actual cost to the consumer
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Britain’s electricity is expensive because our power prices are still tied to gas.
Gas share of electricity:
UK: ~35–40%
Germany: ~12–15%
Spain: ~15–20%
France: ~6–7%
When gas prices spike, UK electricity prices spike too. Countries with more nuclear and renewables aren’t exposed the same way. We built a system where the most expensive fuel sets the price.
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@KateFantom Oh come on. Volatility is caused by geopolitical factors / wars.
Pump prices have been static for months and months. What is volatile is daily wholesale electricity price in the U.K.depending on how windy and sunny it is, including negative prices which are not a good thing
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Fossil fuel generated electricity can never lower our emissions as renewables do.
As we’ve reduced our reliance on volatile fossil fuels our emissions have lowered significantly.
Burning fossil fuels means volatile prices at the pump, on your bills and higher emissions.
Annually air pollution alone causes an estimated 7.9 million deaths globally with cumulative costs to the NHS from 2017–2025 projected at £1.6 billion…..
Burning fossil fuels kills - Fact
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@TheTechnician44 No wonder Max doesn’t like this racing. It’s fair!
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This is how to race…. Not a single dive bomb to the apex in sight
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@natesaundersF1 If Max was one of the Ferrari drivers yesterday, I’d have deployed an illegal move and most likely caused a collision. Max in the middle of the field is good for F1
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Max Verstappen today: "It’s a joke. If someone thinks this is fun, then you don’t know what racing is all about.”
Do you agree with him?
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If you invented a machine that could:
- Restore degraded land
- Build topsoil
- Sequester carbon
- Produce fertiliser
- Create complete protein
- Generate its own fuel
- Reproduce itself
- Require zero electricity
You'd win the Nobel peace prize.
Instead, we blame them for climate change.
These cows will be tending to their fields as they always have, while city-based career politicians discuss their impact on national climate agenda.
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