Thursday, 4 March 2010

Hurrah for George Monbiot!

Telegraph
"And so it is with the Great Moonbat who in a rare break with tradition spoke perfect sense in his Guardian column the other day. Here he is, laying into the great government-sponsored solar panel rip-off:

Those who hate environmentalism have spent years looking for the definitive example of a great green rip-off. Finally it arrives, and nobody notices. The government is about to shift £8.6bn from the poor to the middle classes. It expects a loss on this scheme of £8.2bn, or 95%. Yet the media is silent. The opposition urges only that the scam should be expanded.

On 1 April the government introduces its feed-in tariffs. These oblige electricity companies to pay people for the power they produce at home. The money will come from their customers in the form of higher bills. It would make sense, if we didn’t know that the technologies the scheme will reward are comically inefficient. ..."

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