Global gas shocks, not net zero, supplied the winning side’s cleanest explanation, and the near-dead heat showed how little room there was for certainty. The floor’s most-respected No case tied the rise to “volatile global wholesale gas markets and geopolitical conflict”, while arguing that clean energy was the route away from that exposure.
Other No voices widened the charge beyond geopolitics: one said “the issue here is not net zero or green energy, but how our energy is priced”, while others blamed corporate greed, gas dependence and the market’s reliance on the most expensive generator. The result was a rejection of net zero as the main cause, not a settled account of every pressure behind the bill.
Yes voters made a more hostile case, centred on subsidies, unreliable generation and the cost of shifting policy burdens elsewhere. Their most-respected voice called climate action “The AGW hoax” and “a Psyop for decades”, while another said “we are being driven into poverty by a hostile government”; a separate argument insisted wind and solar were “by nature, intermittent and thus inefficient”.
The sides often answered different questions: No argued about the immediate trigger and electricity pricing, while Yes focused on the long-term cost of the transition. The sharpest Yes objection was that environmental costs “just moved to a different heading” when transferred from bills to taxation, a point that left the chamber disputing not only causation but what counts as a cost.
This was a narrow verdict against a single-cause explanation, with the room more united about the complexity than about who should bear it.
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If alleged that there is a Global ‘problem’, it’s a scam. If that ‘problem’ can only be fixed by ‘Global’ action it’s a scam. If ‘science’ cannot be questioned it’s a scam. The AGW hoax has been a Psyop for decades corrupting our children’s minds & like the COVID-19 scam we are invited to accept complete nonsense cheered on by the usual suspects. Miliband’s NetZero bill will be £1.4Trillon - CO2 is a trace gas 0.04%. Real issue is clouds, water vapour the Sun. Criminal Fraud
Sustainable energy such as wind farms receive subsidies for not producing power when the grid cannot cope with the additional input, this pushes the price for consumers up as someone has to pay for it and they are not able to cope at peak times. If we were able to still produce our own gas / electricity instead of shutting these facilities down in the name of net zero we would not be reliant on very expensive imports , which have risen in price due to various conflicts
It is somewhat sad to read responses such as that from BenL. It repeats Milibrand's propaganda without any knowledge of the facts. The heads of electricity generators acknowledged that if gas dropped to zero it would have no impact on electricity prices. 65% of industrial energy costs are incentives for renewables by the government's statement for Energy Intensive Industries. And the cost will only grow from here.
Wind and solar are, by nature, intermittent and thus inefficient. Nuclear remains the most practical way forward.
We are being driven into poverty by a hostile government.
The increase is driven by volatile global wholesale gas markets and geopolitical conflict. Accelerating clean energy is the only sustainable way to break our exposure to international fossil fuel markets.
No. It's the greed of the shareholders that drives up prices. Going all-nuclear would fix prices in the long run, especially if we invest in research for Fusion generation and Thorium reactors, which leaves little to no radioactive waste unlike Uranium or Plutonium.
This is a confusingly worded question - technically the recent change is more likely to do with Iran - but the reason the long term baseline price is so high is because of net zero policies
Renewables produce so much energy now we can't store it and we have to turn some off. The same pirates controlling oil & gas powered power stations also control the renewables. The problem is naked greed & blatant profiteering
The issue here is not net zero or green energy, but how our energy is priced. Green energy is cheaper to produce and creates jobs, but we cannot currently benefit from the price differential because electricity price is pegged to the cost of fossil fuels. Moreover, it is better and cheaper for us to invest in research and development now rather than later. Other countries can buy our technology, generating more income.