RE: You couldn't make it up20 May 2026 12:37
HI Jakers,
I agree that the Green Agenda has come at a really poor time in History, but it is the Future..
It should have started many many years ago and slowly, building infrastructure first, not windmills that have to be turned off and pay for them anyway because the horse and the cart are back to front....
NORTH SEA: -
It takes 5 to 30 years from the initial discovery of a North Sea oil field to actually begin commercial drilling and producing oil.Because the North Sea is a mature basin, the timeline depends entirely on the status of the field
Now, lots of different sources will have a slightly different take on times lines and how much is actually left, but what is clear as day, is that the License is not with Great British Energy, it will be with the likes of a BP ( who want's out anyway ), Shell, Harbour, etc etc etc etc.. Then they sell that on the Open market at the market price. Corporations make the money, we just over tax them.
We would then over tax them, just to pay for more welfare for lazy Mental Health idiots too idol to do a days work.
NOW: - If we had had the forsight of Norway style Sovereign wealth, we'd be not having this argument all the damn time, we'd be an incredibly wealthy Country, but no, we're not, we're broke, because Politicians have failed us time and time and time again...
If Labours " Great British Energy " our country's own Public Listed / owned entitiy was managing the Licenses ourselves and extracting ourselves, proving for our Domestic Market at cost and the rest on the International Market with all sales going into our Sogerign Wealth fund, my god, what a champion Political Party that would be...
Instead, we have these Cretins working for their own good and lining their own pockets and creating jobs for mates..
I've gone off on 1, it's aligned with you with an additional expanded rant at our fecklessness and incompetence.