As American President Donald Trump moves ahead with his plans for drilling more American oil and taking over Venezuelan oil infrastructure, other countries continue to commit energy suicide, including woke Scotland.
The UK has become infamous for its Orwellian, socialist policies, and that includes climate alarmism instead of pragmatism when it comes to energy policy. America under the Biden administration was on a similar disastrous path, but fortunately under the Trump administration, we are avoiding the ultimate catastrophe. But British citizens can expect to pay more for less reliable electricity in the future.
Wind turbines destroy the land or marine environments where they are built, kill wildlife, depend on slave and abusive labor in Africa and China, are toxic for the environment, and absolutely cannot support entire energy grids. None of which has stopped many European nations and American states from relying on the inefficient, expensive boondoggles.
Climate Change Dispatch reported that authorities in Scotland are using ratepayer money to pay the companies running the biggest offshore wind farm there for not using 77% of their capacity. Yes, you read that statistic correctly.
Scottish SSE and French TotalEnergies run the offshore wind farm. But it seems “run” is a term that must be taken very loosely:
The Seagreen wind farm off Scotland’s east coast is squandering vast amounts of its power because there is not enough grid capacity to transport it to areas of the country where it is needed most.
This inability to handle surplus electricity led to 77pc of Seagreen’s total output going to waste last year, new accounts show, from a total of 114 turbines…These payments are made under a government scheme to encourage renewables, aimed at guaranteeing cash for green power even if it cannot be used.
Seagreen might have raked in as much as £200 million in one year for turning off turbines, the Renewable Energy Foundation estimated. Only ideology drives such decision-making, not any practical or financial assessments.
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Meanwhile, in America, Donald Trump is moving ahead with his plans for Venezuelan oil after U.S. troops captured narcoterrorist dictator Nicolás Maduro. The president announced on Friday to oil executives, per Fox Business, “Our giant oil companies will be spending at least $100 billion of their money, not the government's money … to rebuild the capacity and the infrastructure necessary. Venezuela has also agreed that the United States will immediately begin refining and selling up to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil, which will continue indefinitely.”
Trump emphasized the impact of having access to the country with the world‘s largest oil reserves: “When you add Venezuela and the United States together, we have 55% of the oil in the world.” He expects to see gas prices get even cheaper across the USA in consequence.
Coupled with Trump‘s efforts to increase oil drilling and nuclear energy here at home, and you can see how the UK and the U.S. are headed in completely opposite directions for the future on energy independence and reliability.
