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Trying to freeze utility prices - can a labour supporter please explain how?
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grizzly1911 wrote: »Germany has renounced nuclear and will presumably start to wind down it's plants as and when they become end of life if not before.
Will they continue to buy nuclear generated energy from their neighbours? Same goes for Italy.
Shame France appears to revel in nuclear and happens to be to the west of them. Any fallout will predominately travel west with the prevailing winds.
The fallout from Chernobyl affected milk supplies in Cumbria, so I'm not sure that the East/West divide applies!Lets be honest Chernobyl was doen to user error and no containment structure.
Japan was down to 2 big natural disasters happening at the same time.
Neither of these problems would effect nuclear power here.
In many respects nuclear causes no global warming... unless they all blew up I suppose.
User errors and natural disasters are probably the biggest reasons why nuclear is such a risky proposition.
Climate change is probably not a natural disaster - it's much more likely to be a user error.
TruckerT....According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.0 -
The fallout from Chernobyl affected milk supplies in Cumbria, so I'm not sure that the East/West divide applies!
TruckerT....
Yes I know have sheep been allowed back yet?
Probably depends if it is in the Winter or not.
Prevailing is the key.
"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
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grizzly1911 wrote: »Yes I know have sheep been allowed back yet?
Probably depends if it is in the Winter or not.
Prevailing is the key.
That is an extremely simplistic diagram, and it appears to show that France's prevailing wind direction is mostly from the west or south-west.
TruckerTAccording to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.0 -
It would be interesting to know the difference between Milibean's offer to freeze prices, and Cameron's message today which might be thought to imply that it is easy to avoid high energy prices by switching supplier.
Both Cameron and Milibean appear to feel able and willing to interfere in a free market.
Is this Capitalism or Socialism?
TruckerTAccording to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.0 -
It would be interesting to know the difference between Milibean's offer to freeze prices, and Cameron's message today which might be thought to imply that it is easy to avoid high energy prices by switching supplier.
Both Cameron and Milibean appear to feel able and willing to interfere in a free market.
Is this Capitalism or Socialism?
TruckerT
Recommending switching is market interfering? Being able to easily switch was a government strategy, a Labour one at that.0 -
Recommending switching is market interfering? Being able to easily switch was a government strategy, a Labour one at that.
I don't recall any government advice that people should consider switching from Ford to Vauxhall (or vice versa).
In the last week or so, we have celebrated the fact that it now only takes a week to switch bank accounts, and there was something about trying to force the energy suppliers to work within a similar time-frame (they currently quote 4-8 weeks).
One of the reminiscences of the bad old days prior to ms thatcher is the length of the queue for the installation of a phone line.
Plus ca change, c'est plus la meme chose (please pardon my French).
TruckerTAccording to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.0 -
It starts with energy...and where does it end up?!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25223663I think....0
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