Sky Blue Pete
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Couldn’t the USA have just said that
Couldn’t the USA have just said thatIt will have far less impact than the Ukraine war and China will not allow restricted access to supply for very long
Its clearly a message sent to make Iran a pariah state across the middle east
Couldn’t the USA have just said that
It’s what I was saying at the weekend and the reason I can’t quite work what Trump was thinking especially with the mid terms coming up.
It will have far less impact than the Ukraine war and China will not allow restricted access to supply for very long
Its clearly a message sent to make Iran a pariah state across the middle east
Isn’t the Ukraine war another one you didn’t give a fuck about and couldn’t see how it affected us?It will have far less impact than the Ukraine war and China will not allow restricted access to supply for very long
Its clearly a message sent to make Iran a pariah state across the middle east
They are a pariah stateWhat does that mean??
Probably Putin came up with the ideaAgree it will have less impact than Ukraine war but depends how long things drag on for. If it’s a couple of months then expect Oct energy cap higher and petrol to spike.
In terms of Trump, the mid terms are in the autumn and after being elected on ‘America first’, if inflation and petrol increase over there because of this, it won’t be well received
Agree China etc will be applying pressure to end this asap. Not sure if mentioned elsewhere but sure I saw that US has removed India’s restriction to buy Russian oil. Putin probably loving all this
Isn’t the Ukraine war another one you didn’t give a fuck about and couldn’t see how it affected us?
Woke nonsense! Our energy costs are going to skyrocket because of the green levies put on them!Get ready for your energy bills to skyrocket folks
Woke nonsense! Our energy costs are going to skyrocket because of the green levies put on them!
Fact that if we'd have invested in renewable energy when we should have rather than saying it just increases people's prices, we'd now have a cleaner, cheaper and far more secure energy infrastructure that wouldn't be as susceptible to shit like this happening.
But, hey, keeping us reliant on fuel sources from unstable regions of the world (which are unstable BECAUSE they have the fuel sources) often run by bad faith actors who artificially keep the price high, was by far the better choice because, y'know, reasons.
It should have ben a bridging option while transitioning.no we should - like France - have invested in nuclear energy
It should have ben a bridging option while transitioning.
Renewables are far cheaper, less hazardous and easier to construct long term.
But then of course we'd have still been reliant on other nations building the nuclear plants. China constructing our newest nuclear energy plant isn't in the slightest bit worrying...
No he genuinely cares about peace in the Middle EastSo it is just another enrichment scheme then.
Agree it will have less impact than Ukraine war but depends how long things drag on for. If it’s a couple of months then expect Oct energy cap higher and petrol to spike.
In terms of Trump, the mid terms are in the autumn and after being elected on ‘America first’, if inflation and petrol increase over there because of this, it won’t be well received
Agree China etc will be applying pressure to end this asap. Not sure if mentioned elsewhere but sure I saw that US has removed India’s restriction to buy Russian oil. Putin probably loving all this
Possibly the real reason for going in wreck everyone's economy just as it appeared to be showing signs,if we can't have it the rest of you can't?Agree it will have less impact than Ukraine war but depends how long things drag on for. If it’s a couple of months then expect Oct energy cap higher and petrol to spike.
In terms of Trump, the mid terms are in the autumn and after being elected on ‘America first’, if inflation and petrol increase over there because of this, it won’t be well received
Agree China etc will be applying pressure to end this asap. Not sure if mentioned elsewhere but sure I saw that US has removed India’s restriction to buy Russian oil. Putin probably loving all this
That's some bigly numbers. So much winning.America employment figures are out and they're not great reading, especially long term unemployed which has risen nearly 25% in a year.
Crash us and Europe?That's some bigly numbers. So much winning.
What's he going to do next to distract from this?
The argument doesn’t even stack up in France anymore. Nuclear in France is about €70 a MWh whereas renewables are about €50 a MWh. If France is the example then the example is France backed the wrong horse in Nuclear energy. If you want a good example to follow for the consumer you need to look at somewhere like Spain where they backed renewables and now the consumer is reaping the benefits.It should have ben a bridging option while transitioning.
Renewables are far cheaper, less hazardous and easier to construct long term.
But then of course we'd have still been reliant on other nations building the nuclear plants. China constructing our newest nuclear energy plant isn't in the slightest bit worrying...
The argument doesn’t even stack up in France anymore. Nuclear in France is about €70 a MWh whereas renewables are about €50 a MWh. If France is the example then the example is France backed the wrong horse in Nuclear energy. If you want a good example to follow for the consumer you need to look at somewhere like Spain where they backed renewables and now the consumer is reaping the benefits.
Lol so Trump will just declare victory when he feels like it, regardless of the actual situation
The French nuclear plants have been there for decades now and are probably coming to a point where the costs of maintenance and upgrades are making it less desirable. We absolutely should have pursued it as a fossil fuels alternative 50-60 years ago though.The argument doesn’t even stack up in France anymore. Nuclear in France is about €70 a MWh whereas renewables are about €50 a MWh. If France is the example then the example is France backed the wrong horse in Nuclear energy. If you want a good example to follow for the consumer you need to look at somewhere like Spain where they backed renewables and now the consumer is reaping the benefits.
Unlike this stupid country France has a plan.The French nuclear plants have been there for decades now and are probably coming to a point where the costs of maintenance and upgrades are making it less desirable. We absolutely should have pursued it as a fossil fuels alternative 50-60 years ago though.
One of the big bones of contention I have with others on the left and the Greens especially is their long opposition to nuclear power.Unlike this stupid country France has a plan.
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I don’t normally disagree with anyone but when our environmental officer within the union did an anti nuclear paper I was very annoyedOne of the big bones of contention I have with others on the left and the Greens especially is their long opposition to nuclear power.
I think we need a review. I read an article many years ago that suggested that if we deployed our nuclear arsenal on the over side of the world the nuclear winter it would create would be so extreme it would wend life as we know it this side of the world. If true I’m not sure why we need so many nuclear warheads, especially when you consider that if we fire ours our allies are probably also firing theirs and our enemies are also firing theirs.One of the big bones of contention I have with others on the left and the Greens especially is their long opposition to nuclear power.
I'm talking about nuclear energy, not nuclear weapons.I think we need a review. I read an article many years ago that suggested that if we deployed our nuclear arsenal on the over side of the world the nuclear winter it would create would be so extreme it would wend life as we know it this side of the world. If true I’m not sure why we need so many nuclear warheads, especially when you consider that if we fire ours our allies are probably also firing theirs and our enemies are also firing theirs.
If we can reduce our arsenal the money saved could be spent in other areas of military capability. For instance we might be able to have enough type 45 frigates so there’s always at least one combat ready to leave port at a moments notice to protect British interests, unlike what we’ve witnessed this week. It’s a national embarrassment that the navy has been cut so much over the last decade or so we have to say give us a weeks notice when something kicks off. We’re an island nation, a lot of our overseas territories are island nations, we sing a song about how we ruled the waves.
Events this week should be an eye opener. Especially where the navy is concerned. It’s lost 25%?of its personnel since 2000 and the fleet shrank 50% since 2010. Yes we’re rebuilding and modernising our fleet with some incredible equipment but ships aren’t built overnight.
The estimated cost of maintaining our nuclear arsenal is something like £6.5 billion a year, that’s about 10% of our defence budget. Maybe a portion of that money could be better spent elsewhere. For instance the budget for improving equipment in the navy over the next decade is £40 billion. We could increase that substantially if we were spending less on maintaining a nuclear arsenal we never intend to use and is clearly to big.
Ha ha ha. So you did. What can I tell you. It was a long night.I'm talking about nuclear energy, not nuclear weapons.
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