At last, Boris Johnson ditches green dogma on energy. Mail
Has Boris Johnson finally seen the light on the need for Britain to be self-sufficient in oil and gas for the foreseeable future?
With experts warning that families face annual power bills topping £4,000, the Prime Minister seems to have grasped how decades of energy policy have been simple-minded and self-harming.
By accepting that the transition to net zero needs to be slower, he is stepping away from virtue-signalling green dogma. That's not only welcome, but eminently sensible.
The Mail strongly advocates phasing out our reliance on fossil fuels. But this should be done in an orderly way so we have adequate supplies until we reach our goal of decarbonisation.
Boris Johnson seems to have grasped how decades of energy policy have been simple-minded and self-harming
With neither wind nor solar power reliable enough, the solution – combined with boosting nuclear power – lies under our feet and off our shores.
The North Sea has vast unexploited oil and gas reserves. And the country potentially sits upon some of the world's richest layers of shale, with fracking supplying cheap gas and creating many jobs.
The effect on fuel bills could be huge.
The alternative is importing dirtier fuels from despots such as Putin, which means funding his war machine.
We await with bated breath the PM's new energy strategy, promised within days. It must confront the grim reality of the crisis – not just spout more vacuous rhetoric.
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