weatheriscool wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 8:41 pm
Great news! We need more oil and gas to drive down the cost and to help people in need.
Why do you continue to post this nonsense? Fracking will make bugger-all difference to UK energy bills.
To identify the drilling sites, obtain planning approval (in the face of massive local opposition), install the infrastructure, and scale up production will take many years – by which time, renewables will have plummeted to even lower costs than now.
Also, UK shale deposits are more geologically complex than in the US, meaning you have to drill deeper. Even a best-case scenario means fracking would produce only a tiny percentage of UK gas.
In any case, and more to the point, the oil and gas will simply be sold to the highest bidder at international prices.
But hey, it's great for making a few rich people even richer, increasing our emissions, poisoning local water and ecosystems, diminishing air quality, damaging local properties with 3.0 magnitude earthquakes, and making us even more dependent on a finite energy source.
Please wake up. By far the quickest and best way to bring down energy bills is to accelerate the production of solar, wind, and other renewables. Combined with improvements in home insulation, energy efficiency, etc.