Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Do Green policies cost political votes? Many Tories say yes." video.

@calumhenderson9404 Wind turbine's are built to last between 20–25 years. Some parts may need replacing during this time. Announcement from the UK government Oct 2022 quote A new fiberglass recycling technology is helping to develop a circular wind turbine economy while creating jobs and revitalizing a historic site Nuclear have a shelf life of 35 years and the site isn't usable for how many years and at what COST?
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you don't need to pay more tax to change over to renewables there actually cheaper than fossil you just need the infrastructure investment A large gas station is cheap to build expensive to run a wind farm is expensive to build cheap to run power is free for fk sake. What the Tories don't want to do is invest so give out 10's of billions in fossil subsidies and hope the problem goes away by the next election
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you don't need to pay more tax to change over to renewables there actually cheaper than fossil you just need the infrastructure investment A large gas station is cheap to build expensive to run a wind farm is expensive to build cheap to run power is free for fk sake. What the Tories don't want to do is invest so give out 10's of billions in fossil subsidies and hope the problem goes away by the next election
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@susanhawley4102 why? All going to net zero involves is building sustainable infrastructure. It isn't more expensive it's actually cheaper it just has higher up front capital cost and doesn't make the fossil industry boat loads of money
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@bipolarminddroppings 90% of vehicles in outer London are ULEZ compliant probably 100% of the Tory vote won't pay a charge
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@TheSuperPsychoKiller but the messaging from the Tories is a complete lie renewable energy is cheaper than fossil maintains onshore jobs. The Tories are also pumping 10's if not 100's of billions in tax subsidies into the fossil industry 10's of billions in subsidies to Nuclear and blocking tidal and onshore wind projects
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@mesolithicman164 yet look at Hinckley C it will cost 10's of billions in subsidies meanwhile we could have had 2 or 3 Tidal projects up and running at the same cost, multiple wind farms every house in the UK insulated etc. For nuclear this is the Answer not big white elephant projects Rolls-Royce SMR is a low-cost clean energy solution, using proven and commercially available technology to deliver a fully integrated, factory built nuclear reactor
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@chrisd5964 yes probably, I was a technical analyst before I retired the more I look at treasury data and actual contract prices for renewables the worse the problem appears to be in how embedded fossil subsidies have gotten into the system. Our oil and gas fields are bigger than Norway's by a few % points yet they have extracted 500 billion more in tax from them compared to the UK. That includes the Thatcher and Blair years as well as the current 13 years. Subsidies for renewals have been around 60 billion during that period. Our tax base is lower but that's a lot of money squandered
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