Rachel Reeves to tell G7 accelerating shift to clean energy is best defence against energy price shocks
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/29/rachel-reeves-to-tell-g7-accelerating-shift-to-clean-energy-is-best-defence-against-energy-price-shocks
Posted by topotaul
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Hard to argue with that… Some big-oil funded members of the political spectrum will still try however…
I feel like I just want to facepalm. Like we should have started/done the “Green Transition” 30 to 20 years ago.Â
It’s like the situation where you say things and then at the very end the people you keep saying the things to have an epiphany and started saying they need to do things which are the same things you’ve been saying all along. But they don’t even acknowledge that you have been saying these things all along and think they have just come up with them.
Why does humanity only do things after the fact? Like create laws after the fact that something bad has happened even though everyone knows those laws should have been passed before the bad thing happened.
Or we only do things because we physically can no longer the do the other things?
It’s so frustrating.
Especially those governments that are reducing tax on fuel rather than investing more into public transport and encouraging more people to use public transport and get on their bike.
There’s plenty of old Nuclear sites that could probably take a new power station, most of the old Magnox sites at least, that would give us a decent amount of reliable base load power.
Also electrify more of the railway. Electrification of the West of England Main Line, Chiltern Main Line, from Bristol to Exeter, and the rest of the B&H down to Castle Cary. and Maybe even the Wessex main line, as at least some of the Portsmouth to Cardiff route is electrified already, as far as Southampton, and would be good for freight traffic as well.