Comments on: The EU poses as green again - another opportunity for leaders to get on planes http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/03/10/the-eu-poses-as-green-again-another-opportunity-for-leaders-to-get-on-planes/ Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wokingham Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:54:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Neil Craig http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/03/10/the-eu-poses-as-green-again-another-opportunity-for-leaders-to-get-on-planes/#comment-1022 Neil Craig Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:32:51 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=146#comment-1022 If it is possible to produce enough electricity to power the entire world at current power levels for billions of years why save energy, particularly when the economic cost is usually higher? In a world where energy scarcity is not a problem there is nothing inherently sinful about using it. We live in such a world since the amount of uranium & thorium in the Earths crust can keep us going till the Sun wears out. That we let 24,000 pensioners die annually because of fuel poverty because we refuse to build reactors is, in my opinion, sinful. If it is possible to produce enough electricity to power the entire world at current power levels for billions of years why save energy, particularly when the economic cost is usually higher? In a world where energy scarcity is not a problem there is nothing inherently sinful about using it.

We live in such a world since the amount of uranium & thorium in the Earths crust can keep us going till the Sun wears out. That we let 24,000 pensioners die annually because of fuel poverty because we refuse to build reactors is, in my opinion, sinful.

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