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@liburghal.bsky.social

Better off households will likely use significantly more gas per resident than poorer households. Subsidising them moving over to heat pumps will have a comparatively larger impact on gas demand, prices and carbon emissions. We live one big societal ecosystem, these things aren't isolated!

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@liburghal.bsky.social

The argument over whether we should drill Jackdaw was largely about gas prices and the environmental impact of burning the stuff. I rarely heard a single person actually articulate why we are still in a position to need to extract gas.

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@liburghal.bsky.social

Extracting the gas from Jackdaw would have done nothing for the local prices without some deeply problematic market manipulation. Though, what Jackdaw and Rosebank could have generated is an income stream that could have been hypothecated to spend entirely on lowering our reliance on fossil fuels.

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@liburghal.bsky.social

My parents could have absolutely afforded to fit solar panels to the house back in 2010, they really didn't need the financial support that came from the boosted feed in tariffs. What those tariffs did was nudge hundreds of thousands to fit them. It was a policy success in that regard!