Warren Beatty is 88 and I'm not sure how I feel about that but if Clapton is in his 80s then all bets are off, as we mark the feast of top desert dude St John Climacus
Eliot, as you know I am a good centre-lefty (with the emphasis on centre) in good standing, so being this I am of course very concerned about Climate Change. However, given the Defence and security and US alliance issues it seems clear to me that all of us (Torys having to accept higher taxes, welfare campaigners having to accept cuts, international development types having to accept we need to look after our own backyard for a bit) so in the desperate search for cash to pay for what needs to be paid for I am wondering just how much money the UK would get if it approved the North Sea oil fields that are currently under review.
Firstly it seems to me ( a person who would be happy to see a solar panel on every roof in the country and a coastline plastered with windmills and tidal power) that even with those things, we are still going to be using oil for at least the next 30 years and even if we don't China, Africa, Sth America still will be, so leaving that in the ground won't mean less oil is used, it will just be used to make some of the most awful regimes on earth even richer and have export Tarriffs applied by Trump (is that the right word for taxes on exports??) or retaliatory Tarriffed as a way to hit his political base, so why not just get the money from what is the property of the British people (the bit, where on the off chance you are not a Tree Tory and are actually open to this, the bit where we will likely disagree is I would go full Sovereign Wealth Fund Norway style with it and not let BP or anyone anywhere near it and keep all the profit in the Treasury), but my question I hope you have the answer too, before I burn bridges with my climate change activist centre-left brothers is, just how much oil are we talking about in these fields, is it in the 100s of billions range over 30 years, or are we talking 10 or 20 billion where after costs its barely worth the effort and political blowback
I just feel pace McSweeney, that the Red Wall would like this, that it makes economic sense and considering we are still going to be importing the stuff during the transition it even makes environmental sense rather that polluting ships transporting the exact same product from some of the most vile regimes on earth, hell we might even be able to sell some into Europe and use that as a way to bring down some trade barriers
Crazy talk or if we truly live 'in a new world' (which I strongly believe we do) isn't this one of those 'all options on the table' things we need to be talking about
You might be amazed/amused/vaguely interested that St Tola has had an edible afterlife as a very fine and delicious goat's cheese 🧀 https://www.st-tola.ie/
Possibly you will find it in The Fromagerie in Marylebone but idk 🤷♂️ 😐
Eliot, as you know I am a good centre-lefty (with the emphasis on centre) in good standing, so being this I am of course very concerned about Climate Change. However, given the Defence and security and US alliance issues it seems clear to me that all of us (Torys having to accept higher taxes, welfare campaigners having to accept cuts, international development types having to accept we need to look after our own backyard for a bit) so in the desperate search for cash to pay for what needs to be paid for I am wondering just how much money the UK would get if it approved the North Sea oil fields that are currently under review.
Firstly it seems to me ( a person who would be happy to see a solar panel on every roof in the country and a coastline plastered with windmills and tidal power) that even with those things, we are still going to be using oil for at least the next 30 years and even if we don't China, Africa, Sth America still will be, so leaving that in the ground won't mean less oil is used, it will just be used to make some of the most awful regimes on earth even richer and have export Tarriffs applied by Trump (is that the right word for taxes on exports??) or retaliatory Tarriffed as a way to hit his political base, so why not just get the money from what is the property of the British people (the bit, where on the off chance you are not a Tree Tory and are actually open to this, the bit where we will likely disagree is I would go full Sovereign Wealth Fund Norway style with it and not let BP or anyone anywhere near it and keep all the profit in the Treasury), but my question I hope you have the answer too, before I burn bridges with my climate change activist centre-left brothers is, just how much oil are we talking about in these fields, is it in the 100s of billions range over 30 years, or are we talking 10 or 20 billion where after costs its barely worth the effort and political blowback
I just feel pace McSweeney, that the Red Wall would like this, that it makes economic sense and considering we are still going to be importing the stuff during the transition it even makes environmental sense rather that polluting ships transporting the exact same product from some of the most vile regimes on earth, hell we might even be able to sell some into Europe and use that as a way to bring down some trade barriers
Crazy talk or if we truly live 'in a new world' (which I strongly believe we do) isn't this one of those 'all options on the table' things we need to be talking about
You might be amazed/amused/vaguely interested that St Tola has had an edible afterlife as a very fine and delicious goat's cheese 🧀 https://www.st-tola.ie/
Possibly you will find it in The Fromagerie in Marylebone but idk 🤷♂️ 😐