Are there likely to be severe power shortages

Every week Christopher Booker declares that there will be, within the next
six or seven years, severe electricity shortages as power stations close
down due to environmental laws and due to getting too old to function.

He's talking about huge shortfalls as there seems to be little chance of the
generating capacity being replaced. OK - he's got his way of seeing the
world but he does sound convincing.

Whenever I see the hapless Malcolm Wicks (Energy Minister) on the box I get
more convinced that Booker is right.

Brown's trip to see the Saudis is another thing that gets me worried - the
idea seems to be either to ask them nicely to stop being horrid to us or,
failing that, to ask them to invest in wind generating technology that
doesn't exist in a form anywhere near sufficient to keep the lights on or in
nuclear power stations which take a loooong time to build. I suppose the
idea is to persuade the Saudis that as the world switches away from oil then
they'll be making money from their investments in the new forms of power
that people are using instead. Mmm. I thought the Saudis had form for
buying into new technologies and then ruining their prospects in order to
keep the oil profits flowing.

Then there's the "get gas from the Russians / join in with the E.U. to get
gas" etc. theory.

Does anyone know what the Government's nuclear policy is and whether it is
actually producing anything?

At the moment I'd say we are well on course for Booker's power cuts. Up
against the Putins and Sauds of this world and our champions are...Malcolm
Wicks and Gordon Brown. Not looking good, is it?

Anyone?


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