Thursday 2 February 2012

Unlike the Lockheed 'Connie'........

......we can but hope the EU becomes obsolete sooner.

From EurActiv we learn that Connie Hedegaard, EU Commissioner for Climate Change, is having second thoughts about biofuels. After a draft Commission impact assessment indicated that the greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels may exceed those of fossil fuels, she is quoted as saying: "It’s great to see the potential in new technologies, but we should take very much care in Europe that we are now not establishing a new big industry that we then - after some time - say, wow, that was not so good". In a separate report Bloomberg reports that a study by Malcolm Fergusson, the former head of climate change policy at the UK’s environment agency, shows that EU policy on biofuels will cost EU consumers €126 billion.

It is not just the above policy that people are paying for - wind farms is another immediate example that springs to mind. Both subjects - and the industries they have spawned -  are the result of a flawed premis.

What chance do we have of preventing idiots from pursuing catastrophic goals, especially when we in the UK produce our own idiots 'huhne' from the same gene bank?

4 comments:

TomTom said...

I am more concerned at using food to provide fuel. What could be more of an FU symbol to the Third World than pricing food alongside oil ?

WitteringsfromWitney said...

TT: Fair comment which further illustrates the stupidity of the process.

microdave said...

I didn't know you were a fan of the Connie?

WitteringsfromWitney said...

md: I wasn't per se, other than I thought it an attractive airliner - I did work for Lockheed for a short while in London.........

One of the Yanks drove out of the u/ground car park in Berkeley Square where their offices were turned right and smack into a taxi. When bemoaning his fate I happened to remark it was understandable as if Yanks can't stop two planes hitting each other in heaven knows how many square miles of Iranian desert, what chance did one have in London driving a car?