Scary reading. Ireland is in the eye of this particular storm. Increasing electricity prices as windfarms need increasing subsidies to turn a profit means increasing fuel poverty.
Fantasy is really only fun when it’s truly free…
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Europe’s Energy and Electricity Policies are a Bad Model
Forbes
Jude Clemente
27 December 2015
It’s quite telling that COP21 took place in Paris. Western leaders, environmental groups, and international institutions are convinced that Europe is the model for the rest of the world to install more renewable energy and efficiency.
Entered into force in 2005, Europe has been a mainstay of the failed Kyoto Protocol, the first agreement for country-by-country reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. And the European Union Energy Roadmap 2050 wants the EU to cut its emissions 80% below 1990 levels by 2050, setting milestones for reductions of the order of 40% by 2030 and 60% by 2040.
But, the truth is much different. Europe is a “green energy” basket case with surging prices, fleeing industry, falling economic and population growth, growing dependence on Russian energy, and…
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