FURTHER to Jim Taylor’s long letter (Aug 17), the actions of Just Stop Oil and their fellow travellers themselves fall into the “greenwash”…
is determined by the demand for its products and the balance of supply and demand is regulated by the OPEC+ countries and the US, who amongst them control the market prices.
As far as gas is concerned, the UK still produces much less gas than it consumes, so any local production reduces imports and hence shipping pollution. The recent announcement of Centrica signing an agreement to buy one million tonnes per year of liquified natural gas – the most energy-inefficient form of gas transport – from the US over the next 15 years is proof of this.
Not only do the naive antics of the more extreme climate warriors turn off more people than they enlist to their cause, but they also peddle a completely nonsensical approach to the problem that, if applied, would not work for the reasons outlined above, and even if it did work would turn the world into an energy desert with a drought of the materials our civilisation has come to take for granted.
My main objections to remarks by Taylor concern his failure to identify any difference between a continuing but hopefully also a rapidly dwindling extraction of fossil fuels from existing installations, and an investment in the exploration and development of new fossil fuel resources. Unfortunately, we may require the first, but we should definitely be avoiding the second, and the huge profits produced by continued extraction and use should be directed towards more appropriate activities.
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