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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on September 07, 2023, 08:39:33 PM
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UK: you may soon go to jail if you don't upgrade your energy efficiency
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/09/06/uk-you-may-soon-go-to-jail-if-you-dont-upgrade-your-energy-efficiency-n576157
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the Industrial Revolution began in the UK.
It was the mastery of energy–replacing muscle power with fossil fuels that fundamentally transformed everything. We still describe an engine’s output as “horsepower” for a reason: for most of human history the fastest anything could travel was the speed of a horse.
Unless, of course, you were falling off a cliff. Then you could go faster, but the ride was short.
The UK–which is still led by the Tories only because Labour is even worse–is looking to undo the Industrial Revolution. In a ridiculous bid to save Gaia from an imagined threat, the government is proposing to create new criminal laws that would imprison and fine people for not complying with new energy efficiency standards. Soon they will make excessive energy use–and that will be energy use that rises above “Net Zero”–could be a criminal offense.
No, I am not kidding.
They may as well building prisons for everyone at this point. The Sun has long set in the United Kingdom.