Environment: Rishi Sunak - politics and realism - what we would like to do, what we can do

 

As people walk away from religion, new cults arise and the environment has become a cult and the messiahs of such cult don't have to be in charge of making hard decisions that need to be made to keep countries going.

I would like to have a mansion in Monaco, a very big yatcht, round the year vacations around the world in picturesque places while staying in six star hotels. Can I do it? Can you do it? The vast majority of us cannot.

As Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak has the duty to bring us down to earth, to stop dreaming impossible dreams, to deal with reality and reality tells that that the mount of electricity and infra-structure needed for a radical transformation of society to get rid of all fossil fuel consumption is beyond our means. The National Grid with all the additional energy supplies proved by existing sources cannot cope because electricity demands vastly surpass whatever we can produce. Not even nuclear energy can provide such enormous supply of energy and what ordinary people should become aware of is the fact that having an electric car will increase your taxes and your electricity bills since in vast majority of cases you will have to plug your vehicles to the same energy infrastructure used to provide electricity to your homes. Taxes on electric vehicles and on the use of electric vehicles are already rising for a very simple reason. The taxes applied to fossil fuel vehicles will be applied to electric vehicles. In London of all places, consumers have been hit by a whole package of new taxes. They were paying Congestion Charge, parking costs, added to the costs of running vehicles and now they will have to pay for ULEZ, and to park cars in front of their own homes. On top of that, the parking costs paid by private companies to provide services to other companies and residential properties are going to be added to bills for delivery, house refurbishments, and other basic services. So it is a never ending cycle of paying tax, tax and more tax that will exhaust consumers. Regardless of any income increases, taxes are eating away private incomes and this includes pension payments that people receive when they retire.

So delaying the implementation of measures that are beyond the scope of reality is a very sensible thing to do and this is exactly what the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has just announced. The messiahs of the new environment cult can say whatever they want. They don't have to make harsh decisions. They don't have to be accountable. Some like to constantly talk about impending doom and live in a world of their own. They constantly talk about what they would like to do, but they never talk about the economic and social costs of what they are proposing.