General Discussion
You said, "There's a consensus on anthropogenic climate change being fact" . No, I don't trust consensus. You mentioned “global conspiracy” even though I only correctly said that the climate, etc. has been changing since the dawn of time. I never said anything about a hoax . You’ve mentioned it several times now. I don’t think anyone else has. I’m interested in why you think it may be ...
Facts are not determined by consensus. Ideology and politics are. Saying the climate has been changing since the dawn of time is not a conspiracy. You can’t deal with corruption in politics because it is human nature. You can only mitigate its impact. The bigger the government the more the corruption. The individual is actually best suited to decide how their income should be spent.
Because those are the ones with the rooftop space. Subsidies always end up benefiting wealthiest. Take the yearly £30bn housing benefit bill as an example. That's basically a landlord subsidy costing each taxpayer around £800 every year. The climate, weather, polar ice caps, forests and deserts have been changing since the dawn of time, long before man even existed. Trying to blame it now on ...
So those that own detached houses and bungalows with large rooftops would get the subsidy. If it means the poor having to pay for it, then I'm sure it's a sacrifice those wealthy homeowners are willing to make to save the planet. This is what has been happening for decades anyway. The wealthiest get the subsidies. Landlords get taxpayers money to insulate their rental properties and replace ...
Who is doing the subsidising if everyone is meant to have it? You can't subsidise yourself. If the technology represented value for money then everyone would adopt it. It doesn't so they continue getting their energy cheaper from the energy companies. And millions of workers own those shares in their pension funds.
The big energy companies aren't stopping anyone from putting solar panels on rooftops or carparks as far as I am aware.
@burneside , the law of unintended consequences comes to mind. Ed Miliband may have good intentions, or he may just be following Al Gore’s playbook which made him a lot of money; either way it is a terrible idea. The best place to put solar panels is on rooftops and in car parks. Using farmland is ridiculous given the UK is not self-sufficient in food and how dense the population is.
Lottery won't be back up until Monday according to the shop assistant.
The riots have been widely reported @Teignpot . I wish Labour would fix the disasters of the last 14 years (really 25 years) but they won't and will just add to them.
The national lottery website is down. https://www.national-lottery.co.uk I don't know if it was down yesterday as I didn't try it. Does anyone know if you can still buy a ticket at the shop? This outage also shows why you should have some cash.
