"... as a major energy producer, the United States will continue to post relatively solid growth rates ... while the ... euro area is significantly weaker. ..."
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I believe that RGGI now poses unacceptable affordability and reliability risks and needs immediate, fundamental revision. The RGGI states must acknowledge the enormity of the risks and engage regulators, system operators, and state lawmakers to consider substantive changes rather than the incremental tinkering contemplated in recent RGGI communications.
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"... the share of global wealth held by the poorest ... would rise from just 2 percent today to 30 percent, while the proportion held by billionaires would fall ..."
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Aussie greens are celebrating a reduction in Aussie emissions as a green energy turning point. But other numbers tell a different story.
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Here is some related advice from the State of New York: if you should ever find yourself in a car hurtling toward a brick wall at 100 mph, your best strategy is to close your eyes and pretend it is not happening.
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That is equivalent to about £750 for every household in the country, of which about a third will feed through onto our energy bills.
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A Government spokesman said such quangos were good value for money. “Net Zero is the economic opportunity of the century… We are absolutely focused on ensuring every pound spent of taxpayer money delivers for the public”.
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The worst part of the RGGI “cap and invest” scheme is that the consumers get absolutely nothing for the increased cost. It is just a gratuitously inflicted injury brought about by completely artificial scarcity.
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Spurning the illusions of energy “transition,” the UAE pursues addition, diversification, and diplomacy based on reality and geared toward long-term prosperity for all. It is a model the EU would do well to consider.
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There was never any democratic mandate for any of this. At no stage were the public consulted, never mind given the opportunity to vote on renewable energy policy, Ed Miliband’s 2008 Climate Change Act or Theresa May’s suicidal Net Zero law.
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...it is past time for the states to ask whether this experiment is worth the cost. If politicians really want to lower electricity costs, the easiest step is to drop out of RGGI.
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Britain needs an honest national conversation about what its energy future actually requires — one grounded not in what is fashionable or financially convenient, but in the austere realities of northern latitude, Atlantic cloud, the non-negotiable demands of a British winter, and the irreplaceable value of the land and water we are being asked to sacrifice.
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FITs are one of the items not included by the OBR in its table of Environmental Levies, even though they used to be until a few years ago and plainly meet the same definition applied to other renewable subsidies – costs imposed by government on energy bills.
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Nobody in their right mind would have designed such a system. Unfortunately by the time of the next election, most of the damage will be irreversible.
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The mission, it turns out, is not to save the planet. It is to remake capitalism in the image of the administrative state. And the bill, as always, will be paid by ordinary Britons.
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“The record negative prices are the market’s loudest warning signal that we have an oversupply of unstable generation, but a dramatic lack of flexibility and storage capacity,” Klimanachrichten summarizes.
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We are facing the consequences of having ignorant environmental activists and politicians trying to re-design our energy system. Fortunately, Co-op City comes complete with a large bloc of voters who, when they learn what the ignoramuses have in store for them, can take their revenge at the ballot box.
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"... the Australian economy has also been operating beyond its sustainable capacity ..."
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Freely chosen economic illiteracy, like other ideological afflictions, appears immune to correction by experience. The hangman’s noose may concentrate some minds, but in Westminster and Brussels, the noose is worn as a fashion accessory.
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The signals in Europe are crystal clear. Energy prices are structurally higher than in the United States; the electricity grid is grinding to a halt; industry is leaving Europe; and dependence on imports is growing. These are not isolated incidents. This is how the system works. And yet, one message is echoing from Brussels and The Hague: let’s accelerate the process.
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We need to force the activists to admit that their proposals don’t work, and the only way to do it is to run right up to the Green Energy Wall.
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"... Energy costs are continuing to surge with prices increasing by 70% in recent years. ..."
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Yet until voters enforce a return to economic literacy, rational energy policy and national sovereignty, Western Europe and Britain will continue its Soviet-style trajectory: central planning without the gulag, energy rationing without bread queues and narrative control without necessitating ‘nine grams of lead in the back of the head’ in the cellars of Stalin’s Lubyanka.
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Blaming climate change is an easy out for insurance profiteers and their enablers, and it’s even better if the costs of weather damage can be passed off onto oil companies that have nothing to do with the weather.
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WOW! Justin Rowlatt has seen the light!
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Paying one group to produce and another to consume does not guarantee usefulness. It guarantees activity.
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Energy abundance is not a luxury; it is the foundation of modern civilisation. To pretend otherwise is not sophistication. It is civilisational self-harm. And the bill, as always, lands on the people least able to afford the eco-crucifix.
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Residents in New England pay more for electricity than nearly all others, according to the Energy Affordability 2026 report from the American Legislative Exchange Council.
The California-based firm pointed to high energy costs and regulatory uncertainty for its decision to pause its Stargate UK project.
In reality, this was a straightforward business transaction: return the lease money, cancel the projects and let the capital flow to energy sources that work.