Yeah, well *I'm* fed up with politicians who took until 2026 to realize an energy system which relies on constant extraction of resources sets you up for this very thing to happen one day.

Alternatives are here! We've been talking about them for decades now!

It's not that complicated!

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I agree, but once again the cost problem is capitalism fault. Right now, energy price is fixed no matter their origin.
Spain produce half of the energy it consume by green energy and the bill stills goes up like the rest of Europe.
Capitalism is a problem they don't want to solve.
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I'm begging citizens to imagine what kind of a better world we could build over the next 10-20 years, and align our political priorities with going in that direction. I swear to god, your median voter would rather watch the world burn before they give up their gas stoves.
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Seriously. "If only there was something we could do, as the government of this country, to mitigate these sudden and unpredictable events that affect our energy prices. If only there was some reliable alternative that we could use."
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But they get paid by oil lobby to do this 🥺
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Its insane to me that we already learned this lesson 50 years ago during the Oil Crisis in the 70s, but we still refuse to move away from oil dependancy.
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Get rid of all lobbyists already.

They also really want to f*ck up our privacy rules and many others that would make them a lot of money.

We don't want the EU to become like America where something like taxes is hard to do because some corp wants to keep selling you that as a service.
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Yes but consider this: The left was annoying and the oil companies had big bags of cash, which the leftists were annoying about me taking
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The UK government policy agrees with you.
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Can't expect much from kid starver.
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I don't know if you meant to imply that Starmer is among those that "took until 2026" to realize, but: Starmer and his party have been pushing for renewable energy for a long time now and for example worked to limit NIMBYism preventing renewable energy projects and uplifted a ban on onshore wind.
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For those interested,
labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Labour-Party-manifesto-2024.pdf

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Yes, there are many metrics on which Starmer is failing, but singling out him and his government on renewables in particular and particularly by someone from Trump's America is wild. There aren't many countries that do better then the UK on adopting 'green energy'!
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This graph tells us - how it started:
1. Putin invades Ukraine in 2022
2. NATO (EU) alarmed - and wants to oil revenues to Russia
3. MBS helps Putin by making OPEC pull out 2 mpd of oil supply and oil prices go up- just trying to get out of acute Covid 19 pandemic (chronic still there)!
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4. Oil prices brought in lot of people at helm down
5. Then through Putin through Iran - has Hamas attack Israel
6. Bibi uses this chance to be brutal - and helps Trump return to power
7. Trump administration - since Jan 2025 - has been cruel and corrupt and copied Putin - at faster pace
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Perhaps Mr. Starmer omitted an apostrophe, for his watering down of climate action is f'ed up.
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But think of the folk who can—by owning only a VERY small tract of land—generate infinite wealth by destroying the world for everyone else! What about THEM Alec!? Have you considered THEIR needs?!
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What amazes me is that the media completely ignore the very idea that an EV is quite useful when the price of fossil fuels rocket.
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I wasn aware of how far solar had come until your amazing video and now I'm radicalised

We have plug in solar in the UK like you can just plug it into a wall socket and other stuff drinks from it
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Isn't this still pending law changes? At least to be connected to the home/grid.

I've been eyeing this up myself: I have a south-facing shed roof sizeable enough for an 800w setup. I just need to replace a few beams and re-felt the roof.
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And I'm fed up with elected officials and HEADS OF STATE that go "GUYS you gotta do something about this!"
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May be pessimistic, but I think it's a reality of "marketing" to the American consumer that politicians need to understand:

The American doesn't give a fuck about "Renewable Energy to save the planet"

You push renewable on Americans with "Fuck other countries, we can make shit cheaper ourselves!"
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Nuclear and Solar are the future
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Wind power is huge here in the UK. It makes up over 1/3rd of our grid. Solar on the other hand is about 1/15th: it's not as viable for much of the country.

The only difficulty we have is getting the power to where we need it. More high-capacity lines are needed.
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theonion.com/scientists-politely-remind-world-that-clean-energy-tech-1819576507/
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hes also hitler about trans people they call him queer harmer for a reason
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Not to mention that to us immigrants he'll always be kier "island of strangers" Starmer.
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Especially fucked up for a British PM to be talking like this when the UK energy market is uniquely fucked over by things like this due to a law that pins per unit costs to the most expensive method of generation used (IE - non-renewables) meaning there's incentive to not switch away entirely.
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Agreed. It’s internal policies that determine the actual cost to consumers. Blaming others is mealy-mouthed at best. There is a lot more he and Ed Miliband should have achieved by now.
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and overhauling the grid energy pricing was a Labour election pledge that they haven't got around to yet... it's possible Starmer is just posturing to get some political capital for it and to look good against the tories' ban on new offshore wind.
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That's intended to subsidise renewables, which are cheaper by their very nature. Something like that exists basically EU-wide too.
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That's how all of Europe does it because it resembles the pricing mechanism of the stock market. They didn't just come up with this on a bender, there actually is some economic theory behind it.
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Moreover, in the UK, the price of electricity is LEGALLY tied to the price of Gas. Even if you started a new electricity company tomorrow, and installed solar farms everywhere, you wouldn't be allowed to charge less because natural gas is so expensive, because of a war Israel started. 🙃
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And if you bid to sell your green energy, get it accepted and it can't be used because the demand is at the other end of the country, you get paid anyway!

It doesn't really incentivise making energy farms in the places where it's most needed, does it?
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Perhaps the person he should be most fed up with is Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero who has pushed back dates for EV mandates, dragged his heels on solar/wind farm connectivity and approved more oil and gas certificates for the North Sea.
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Solar grants for low income families being introduced as a knee jerk reaction to this very crisis, heat pump grants that still leave them over twice as expensive as a gas boiler.

I could go on.
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yeah its crazy to me we hitched our wagon on areas of the world that are always in turmoil and then get upset when they are once again in turmoil. lets stop relying on these places, stop our economies having these huge spikes because of it, oh and the ecosystem would benefit too.
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I see brutal Mideastern dictatorships building lush paradises for their ultra wealthy in the desert and cannot help but think how little power they would have if we weren't paying them trillions for their oil.
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Don't worry, they'll forget about it again as soon as people stop complaining about energy prices. They don't plan, they react.
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Britain is one of the world leaders in adopting renewables, you're being ignorant.
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I genuinely love that you feel strongly about this and won't stop yelling about it
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In the EU we have Fico and Orban arguing that now is the best time to start buying Russian oil and gas again instead of transitioning to the green energy, and I really wish EU was as powerful and anti-national-sovereignity thing as they claim so they would have been disappeared.
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He's always a step behind our Starmer. His father was a toolmaker y'know.
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Tomorrow (or rather today now 😅) is actually looking quite ok for me. The way the energy market here works is totally insane, with gas prices somehow dominating an outsized amount.
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I saw a YouTube vid about west VA electric prices exceeding people’s rent / mortgage because they rely on 80% coal. My reaction is “you are the architect of your own misfortune”
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Britain is doing well in that regard though, this is our generation right now, and it's a bad day.

More space on EV adoption and heatpumps etc., but most countries are transitioning to renewables much slower than we have managed to.
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New England:
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Need more to do on both industrial and transportational basis then. (when they cancelled away major modern public transport projects and you're left with unelectrified public transport and private vehicles be like :)
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Winter is when you should judge this tbh
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Comrade Alec arc incoming?
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it would be funny if this war kickatarted green energy initiatives (we will have completely run out of oil because every refinery has burned)
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Hear! Hear!
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Yeah, but how does that make big oil money?? Huh big guy???
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FUCKIN PREACH DUDE

Any rational person could see from a mile away that this a) could happen, and b) has, to some extent, already happened. It is *deeply* unserious behavior that we've been stuck on the fossil fuel part of the tech tree when we can get almost free energy from the god damn sun.
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I FEED UP WITH OUT OF TOUCH GERIATRIC BOOMERS CONTROLLING THE COUNTRY
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The price of energy is tied to the wholesale market price of energy which is anchored to the most expensive form of energy. Which is gas. We're paying more for almost no reason other than the fact we pay wholesale market rates. 😫 So dumb. Over half our energy is renewable. We pay gas rates.
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Imagine if we spent the last 25 years building solar farms instead of ethanol farms in response to fears over this exact concern. What if we switched for the next 25 years
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If we’re lucky this will finally disconnect electricity prices from gas prices; the actual generation deployment is going so well that other EU states around the North Sea with less wind capacity deployed want to bid a HVDC distribution ring at sea to share more directly and have included Britain.
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