Dale Vince

Bills are going up, we know that and we know why - we allow the global price of gas to set the price of our own North Sea gas and our own green electricity.

Droughts in winter……how crazy does the climate have to get! The biggest thing we can all do about it? Stop eating meat and dairy.

It takes 1,000 litres of drinking water to make just 1 litre of cow milk. Or 50 litres of water to make 1 litre of oat milk.

Banks can afford an increase in the ‘windfall tax’ aka bank levy - they say so privately. But why are we still talking about this - we pay them 4% interest on their deposits, their cash piles, built of our deposits….then charge a 3% levy on their profits…..profits we boost by ~£30 Billion a year.

Windfall profits tackle the symptom not the cause, what we need to do is to prevent windfall profits in the first place - by price controlling oil and gas.

If we control the profits of North Sea oil and gas producers we won't need a windfall tax at all, we'll save £10 billion a year on our energy bills and North Sea operators will get a guaranteed 10% profit margin.

The headline is misleading, I never even mentioned Andy Burnham… What I did say is repeated faithfully in the article, for those that get that far. Past the Ad wall. I said ignore the hype about blackouts this winter, we have more than enough spare capacity.

Here’s some numbers - we have 10% spare capacity on the grid right this winter, by 2030 data centres are estimated to be taking 10% of Britain’s power. That’s our margin - gone, unless we build more, or they do. We’re busy enough getting to 100% green on the grid I reckon.

The headline is misleading, I never even mentioned Andy Burnham… What I did say is repeated faithfully in the article, for those that get that far. Past the Ad wall. I said ignore the hype about blackouts this winter, we have more than enough spare capacity.

Some drum banging from the heat pump industry here and its leading salesman - Greg Jackson. Heat pump sales are actually down 20% this year. The doubling of demand Jackson cites is a doubling of enquiries not sales. Heat pumps don’t work as advertised and that message is getting through.

Heat pumps are simply uneconomic, never paying back their cost - even on the most optimistic bill saving assumptions and with a 50% grant - the payback period is 50 years. The pump will last 15.

It’s been some time coming - climate crisis modelling long predicted the impact on farming - on food. It’s here now. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

A five heatwave summer for Britain with nearly 5k deaths caused - while Europe suffered 50k (double last year's figure) - likely an underestimate as the study only covered urban area. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

The Tories talk big on economic management and being the party of business - and after all the talk they walk the other way.

That’s neither business like nor in the best interests of the country. All Thatchers chickens are coming home to roost - it’s time to throw off her dogma, Peoplenomics is the new economic model.

The Tories talk big on economic management and being the party of business - and after all the talk they walk the other way.

Not a bad idea, especially if it comes ahead of the scrapping of grants for heat pumps - and even electric cars. Here’s a thing, it should bring a proper economic focus to the equipment being bought, borrowed for - the fundamental Q of pay back ought to loom large. inews.co.uk/news/zero-in...

If I borrow this money how long will the savings take to pay it back? The answer for a heat pump is three times the life of the equipment, aka never. Even at 0% interest it simply doesn't work.

In the face of this, it’s obscene to be giving £8k grants to well off families (who have a spare £8k to match the grant with) - for a heat pump, which is more likely to put their bills up than not. And which will never pay for itself.