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@ejwwest @KathyConWom Have you told this to Norway?

@KathyConWom You do realise that burning fossil fuels produces CO2, a proven greenhouse gas, causing global warming? What’s your alternative policies to address that? Please be specific. We have commitments in international and domestic law.

Published a week ago. People still reading 👇 Norway collected £50bn from North Sea oil & gas last year. We collected £4.4bn, having taxed our own producers into closure in pursuit of a #netzero fantasy. Suicidal conservativewoman.co.uk/the-suicidal-m…

@EVCurveFuturist @austhrottle That will drain the battery super quick.

Fair point to question it, but we’ve got plenty of like-for-like data now. Same loads, same routes: EV trucks hold highway speed on climbs where diesel drops off and starts downshifting. ~1,000+ hp, instant torque, no gears, constant power. Empty ICE can look quick, sure. But under real load, EVs don’t lose momentum. That’s the difference. teslaacessories.com/blogs/news/the…

Check out this footage of an #EV truck overtaking the usual suspects dragging their heels up a steep grade, slowing traffic and winding everyone up. Fully loaded Tesla Semi, but it could just as easily be Windrose, BYD or Volvo. No shifts. No lag. Just torque. Cost always wins.

@LilyWonderland5 @Object_Zero_ No.

@_BrokenArrow @Object_Zero_ Nope, most of it is then sold to other countries.

The UK is 51-55° North, it is on the same latitude as Siberia, and Alaska. In the UK, 26.6 million of the 28 million households are heated with natural gas. The British government is concerned about the country’s vulnerability to natural gas shocks. The government’s solution is that the UK must produce less natural gas domestically. So a 70% windfall tax is applied to domestic gas production. British voters agree. 🤔 As a result, there now isn’t enough gas for electricity generation. Electricity prices are rising. The British government is concerned about the country’s vulnerability to electricity price shocks. The government’s solution is that the UK must produce less electricity. A 55% windfall tax is now applied to electricity generation. British voters agree. 🤔 It’s difficult to be sympathetic here, maybe a sympathetic approach is that the UK is a good case study for mass delusion? Maybe people have been manipulated to feel this way? If they haven’t, then it’s difficult to be sympathetic.

@PhilibertLeslie @GeoffreyLean Nuclear storage and decommissioning costs are included in its strike price.

@GeoffreyLean Does this include nuclear, which creates the eternal costs of storing, or at best processing nuclear waste which is eventually paid by tax payers?

People living in the five EU countries with the cleanest energy will pay less than half as much for energy this year as those in the most polluting ones, concludes a new report. In total they will save €8.5 billion. euronews.com/2026/04/22/fiv…

@jonburkeUK Norway's population is half that of just the UK population increase since 1990. Same resources, 1/14 the population. It doesn't take much to do the math as to why they could afford a wealth fund, they had nothing else to spend it on.

Between 1980 & 1990, tax revenues from privatised North Sea oil & gas were £166 billion. Adjusted for inflation, this is 15 times more than Norway started the world's Sovereign Wealth Fund with. Instead, the Tories squandered our inheritance on halving income tax for the rich.

@Tw_timerAlder Doing the calculations on how much power would be required to charge 200KWh batteries in 6 minutes for the typical 2000 cars/day of a busy service station .......😂

This will upset a lot of fossil fuel fans who prefer their motoring to be dirty and expensive.

@BuckCllr @oIIyjm @shookzie The highest performing schools are almost always state grammar schools, not private schools. Having money does not make your kids bright.

@oIIyjm @shookzie Everyone except Labour. It was never about raising tax revenue, it was always about trying to eradicate high performance private schools and getting everyone in to the state machine!

"Imposing VAT on private schools has cost the Scottish economy £60m & 900 jobs." "It is expected that the VAT collected will be less than the fiscal impact…giving a net loss of £16m, to rise to £181m by 2037-38." Who could have seen this coming? 🙋🏼‍♂️ thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

@jamieclimate What's going to happen to grids when service stations try to charge 2000 cars a day with 200kWh 6 minute charge batteries?

What’s going to happen to oil companies when you can get a car that goes over 900 miles on a 6 minute charge? No wonder they’re doing everything they can to kill electric vehicles.

@julianHjessop India having the same GDP as the UK and having to share it out to 1.5 billion people...🤷

"UK has quietly regained its position as the world’s 5th largest economy" 🤔 I was going to ignore this but as it's still being trumpeted by the usual suspects... This is based on nominal GDP (so doesn't account for inflation) and is in US dollars at current market exchange rates (so the rankings switch around based solely on fluctuations in the value of the pound and in other currencies, in this case the Indian rupee). So not very meaningful, and nobody with a basic grasp of economics would make a big deal of it.

@LilyWonderland5 @Object_Zero_ There is no pipes to the " market in general". All the pipes come into the UK and the UK consumes all of it.

@Object_Zero_ The market in general.

@DeAthCardiff If there's no gas or oil left, there's no harm in issuing exploration licenses to make sure of that fact.

This just isn't true. The UK has been a net importer of natural gas since 2003, as North Sea production has been in long-term decline. The only way to reduce exposure to volatile international fossil fuel markets is a fast, orderly shift to domestically produced clean energy.

@julianHjessop How about having a sliding scale of corporation tax of 20% for those operating a 10:1 pay scale up to 30% for those >= 30:1 and down to 15% for <=5:1.

ps. here's something I wrote earlier explaining why this is a terrible idea... (2/2) julianhjessop.substack.com/p/the-green-pa…

Predictable, but still depressing... 🙄 New @YouGov poll suggests 65% of Britons would support the Green Party's call for a maximum pay ratio of 10:1 between the top and lowest-paid person in each company 👇 (1/2)

@Scux @sumbolus @jvdaleo @engineers_feed Motor efficiency != Vehicle efficiency.

@sumbolus @jvdaleo @engineers_feed Read the post again, but very slowly. All information you need is there. You just have to understand it.

ICE cars best efficiency is in the highest gear at 60–70 km/h (35–40 mph). EV theoretically best efficiency (without the usage of AC) is at about 40 km/h (25 mph). This is the reason why EVs excel in city driving. 30–50 km/h (20–30 mph) is their “heaven”. And since ICE cars cannot regenerate while braking, they just double down their advantage.

@engineers_feed Modern ICE cars DO regenerate during braking, that's the whole point of smart alternators.

@Gerbil_Horde @trwsenti A 4 day working week is equivalent to a 20% unemployment rate. Not something most countries can afford.

@trwsenti There are 220 working days per year for your average person in the UK. Once you take off weekends & statutory holidays and your 25 additional days annual leave, you reach about that number. Still too many, for sure. We need a mandated 4 day week #🐹

28 days of annual leave. Out of 365. Your employer owns 337 days of your year. You get 28. And half of those you spend recovering from the other 337. How is this the "good deal" everyone told you to be grateful for?

@BarristersHorse Reduce corporation tax for those companies that maintain a balanced wage structure and increase it for those that don't.

I'm definitely no lefty, but back in Margaret Thatcher's day, her ideal wage structure was 4x, with a person at the height of their profession expected to earn 4 times that of the lowest paid employee in the sector. How the income divide has grown, where Green Party proposals of a cap at 10x earnings are considered outrageous. To be clear, I don't think there should be an earnings cap imposed by legislation, but we're an extremely unhappy country because your average worker is really struggling to make ends meet. The have/have nots divide is too wide.

@elonmusk Fun fact, the biggest hydrogen bomb ever detonated, the 50Mt Czar bomb, produced less radioactive fallout than the Hiroshima bomb. Fusion bombs don't produce nuclear fallout.

The probability of this happening is not 0%

@LizChell @hol40900 @CarolineLucas We need oil and gas for the foreseeable future, even the Gov recognises that fact. Importing it wrecks the trade balance, depreciates Sterling and makes everything expensive.

@hol40900 @CarolineLucas Lucas (ex head of the Green party) has researched this area of fossil fuels for decades. She knows what she's talking about. Just because some people don't like it, doesn't make it wrong!

Caroline Lucas is right. North Sea output has collapsed, investment is falling off a cliff and new fields would take years to come online. Renewables already generate over half our electricity—and do it faster, cheaper, and without wrecking the climate.🌍

@ret_ward @KathrynPorter26 LNG imports have Radon in it. It needs to be scrubbed.

@KathrynPorter26 Given your ignorance of climate issues, you will excuse me for disregarding your extreme views about them. In any case, Norwegian pipeline imports have lower carbon footprints than UK North Sea supplies.

I am afraid that Ian Duncan Smith simply hasn’t grasped the main issue. We will not persuade other countries to leave their fossil fuels in the ground if we try to extract every last molecule of oil and gas from the North Sea.

@JeremyNic666 @colinwalker79 It's not in England, that's the problem. You need mountains.

@colinwalker79 I'm all for it, where it's viable.

Tunnels connect two bodies of water, one higher than the other. You use power in times of excess to pump water to the higher lake, and you let it back down to the lower one to generate electricity in times of high demand Radical I know, can't see it being done