Going All Out to Fail

Left-wing extremists are once again attempting to undermine the greenest government ever. Some of George Osborne's more communistic City chums have proclaimed that shale-fracking is "unlikely to produce commercial volumes of gas until the end of this decade and ... unlikely to have a meaningful impact on gas prices", because instead of lowering prices to compete, companies will simply export the gas. Meanwhile, in defiance of the accepted doctrine as laid down by the faith-based community in Whitehall, no less an authority than BP has admitted that greenhouse gases will rise by almost a third over the next couple of decades, and that shale-fracking will make no difference whatever. Although the use of shale gas has lowered prices in the USA, emissions have continued to rise because the use of coal has continued to rise. It is just possible that BP, which specialises mainly in keeping the Gulf of Mexico clean, may have an ulterior motive in denouncing the effects of coal and shale; but it still comes to something when a supposedly national government can be more dishonest than a fossil fuel corporation about the harmful effects of fossil fuels.