The BBC has finally found something online that it thinks is a waste of resources.
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Government thinking of bringing in regional energy prices, where regions that consume but don't produce much have to pay more to 'buy' their energy from regions that produce lots and consume little. So Scottish windfarms sell to London as an example.
I'm fine with that as long as we break up all things that way. Income tax raised in a region is spent in the region etc.
Doubt it's going to happen. Wouldn't worry about it.
Just think it's a bizarre proposal.
I've got a brilliant idea, why don't the government do their job and take control of the energy companies that are actually just billing operations, develop a coherent energy plan, build the mix of generation that it should have been doing for thirty years, and reduce our dependence on oil and gas production in the middle east and russia?
....oooh, that's why.....
The motivation seems to be to encourage the building of renewable energy sources closer to where it's needed? Might find the NIMBY objections to wind turbines get alot quieter if having them in the next field to your house means almost free power?
There are reasons.
Around here, the Welsh are furious that those cunts from Birmingham have been nicking our water without recompense for a century now. It's our water and we want to pollute it with our chicken farm shit, not your Broomie piss!
And now, in the same area, they want to put up wind farms, on our mountains, so the bastard Broomies can have some electric.
You could argue that it costs more to provide services for the people of Powys being, but that gets shot out the door when you realise there are no longer services. Powys, second largest county in Britain, no A&E. So if we aren't having an A&E, you can pay my electric bill, you consuming cunts. And backpay on the water too!
I get that, so let's just break the country up, each county raises its own revenues, builds their own hospitals, roads, social care etc and sells (water, etc) their assets to highest bidder.
That's where you're heading once you open the can of worms. Which seems an odd thing for Labour (any government) to be proposing
If central government don't do it, that's inevitably where it ends up...us all fighting each other, and declaring the independent republic of trickster, or whatever, door by door.
I wonder who this division benefits?
Part of the problem. We literally don't have any!
Now pay my electric bill.
As a naturalised Brummie I just wanted to say thanks for the free water and electricity. It's too good for the Welsh.
Sugwch fy scrotwm chi coggobbler Saesneg!
Sounds like the Welsh.
Is this about plucky Wrexham's meteoric rise up the leagues?
