Open up the North Sea
The Straits of Hormuz are blocked, 20 per cent of the world’s oil production is going nowhere. Prices have shot up. If only we had our own oil!
Blimey, we do, out in the North Sea. But, due to the Net Zero mindset of the UK and Scottish governments seem set on not opening up Rosebank, Cambo and Jackdaw. They would rather import oil from elsewhere! Nuts!
Over 6,000 products are made from oil, that is not going to change any time soon, oil will be with us for another 50 years or more.
The SNP’s Pete Wishart on X whines that if Rosebank goes ahead, it will mean that an ‘additional’ 250 million tons of carbon will be taken out of the ground, meanwhile Norway, who, presumably, are also looking after their environment, will open up their side of Rosebank. The oil field sits in both the Scottish and Norwegian sectors. Hurry while stocks last!
I would say open up the North Sea. Get our people working offshore, paying tax, and onshore too with the supply operations. Aberdeen needs a real boost, and this would be the way to do it.
Would an independent Scotland shut down an industry that makes up 12 per cent of Scottish GDP? The idea that an independent nation would choose to cut services by £4.5 billion per year, rather than exploit its natural resources, is bizarre.
The Green agenda wants to cut back on CO2, while China and the US are belching out large amounts, Scotland emits 0.07 per cent of global CO2 emissions while the UK is responsible for less than one per cent of global emissions, but the drive to cut CO2 emissions is wrecking both economies.
The Green agenda also wants renewables in place, but they are heavily subsidised renewables because they simply cannot stand on their own merits.
One third of your electricity bill is paying for the electricity used. There are charges for being on the network, but then there are a lot of charges for subsidies for renewables leading to Britain having the highest industrial electricity prices and the fourth-highest domestic electricity prices in Europe. We are all paying for renewable subsidies!
Business cannot keep absorbing these inflated electricity prices, they put their prices up, then we all, as customers, suffer inflation. That is the cost-of-living crisis right there!
The policy of both governments is destroying the economy, business by business, while bumping inflation to everyone’s discomfort.
Sovereignty campaigns for the North Sea oil industry, and against Net Zero.
Brian Nugent
Hamnavoe
Burra
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