Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "How are other countries coping with the energy price crisis?" video.

  1. It's got nothing to do with either Trump or Biden in the short term energy policy evolves over a decade or more and the US while having a fairly centralised grid in terms of East and west has a privatised utility market at the state level. What your experiencing is the volatility in the fossil fuel market and the for profit utility monopolies gearing only for expected capacity because private companies don't want to invest in over capacity for worst case demand.
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  2. We could have promoted domestic solar more the 3/4% would make a big difference also our homes are poorly insulated and a huge drive on insulation would clip another few points off gas.
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  3. Gas was cheaper by more than half till the current crisis
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  4. The north Sea is one of the best places on the planet to build off shore wind farms, if the UK got its act together it could be a major electricity exporter, excess electricity needs to be used to create and store alternative to natural gas. The current thinking is to use it to create hydrogen gas there are pilots under way.
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