According to
Christopher Booker, writing, in October 2012, in The Sunday
Telegraph.
[Over the next
eight years, we need to spend £100 billion on building 30,000 useless,
unreliable and grotesquely subsidised wind turbines…. [F]urther billions will
need to be spent on new gas-fired power stations – not only to fill the gap left
by all the coal-fired and nuclear plants that are due to close, but also to
provide ever more expensive, “carbon”-emitting back-up for the times when the
wind drops and our turbines are scarcely functioning…. [T]he declared purpose of
George Osborne’s “carbon tax”… [is to] double our energy
bills.Giving up on the fraudulent claims about man-made climate change would allow millions in this country to lead something like the lives shown in television advertisements without having to go into debt. (Sean Gabb.)
