We go now to Bristol a once lovely city that has been plundered by the Left and their ideas, a city where the police stand by and watch monuments vandalised by the Left and where the Leftist mobs hold sway.
The local council set up its own energy company. Now supplying something as vital as energy should be profitable but Bristol council managed to lose £50 million on their own energy sales and generation venture.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/call-bristol-mayor-resign-over-4879626
I notice that the linked report fails to mention that trying to be all green and renewable was a major factor here. Nottinghamshire council have been doing much the same thing. Paul Homewood has their number.
“We keep being told how cheap renewable energy is. Funny how Bristol and Nottingham City Councils lost a fortune trying to flog it!”
You are correct. There’s a lot of green madness behind these local authority energy scams and failures.
Amazon are currently running a TV ad trumpeting their new fleet of electric delivery Vans. The notion that they are less harmful to the environment than ICE vans is just a given. I shall be keeping an eye on them to see how this idea works in practice.
It’s going to be interesting to see where these vans are recharged, presumably at emoyees homes, and how they will be reimbursed. No-one is addressing the massive increase in load on local substations at 7.4kW apiece. What if said employee lives in a flat or home with no convenient charging point, or the latest fad, a “no cars allowed” “green” ultrahigh density future slums development. As of today we are in the middle of our annual winter anticyclone with no wind and with our suicidal closing of power stations and not a single new one, or nuke even on the horizon, I predict brownouts and blackouts very soon. If the blithering idiots do decide to phase out gas heating, let alone conventional vehicles, where is the extra power coming from. More to the point, as air source heat exchangers of sufficient capacity are bloody enormous, let alone the minimum 4kW required to drive them, where do we site them? BTW, I used to work for CEGB Central Electricity Generating Board, running the SE Region grid.
I seem to recall reading somewhere about a village in Cornwall who had a lot of green minded incomers who wanted to buy electric cars but the electricity company refused to install charging points on the grounds that the cabling and transformer infrastructure could not cope with the extra load.
They don’t care, it’s not their money. It’s all about virtue-signalling. Political pipsqueaks looking for approval from a gullible, ignorant or frankly resigned, public.
Councils are notoriously bad at managing money and even worse for providing efficient good value services.
From my experience as a former councillor, the officers are distinctly second rate, their main concern being keeping their jobs and inflation proofed public sector pensions.
I had to create merry hell to get things done and in the teeth of opposition stopped a PFI for street lighting that would’ve saddled the borough with upwards of £120million debt and that was without thextra million or so a year for the “green” electricity. I also forced the resignation of a director for sheer malice and incompetence. It’s amazing what a digital recorder can achieve.
Yes, local councils are notoriously corrupt and inefficient. I had an ex who was working in an accountancy capacity for a local authority and she was forced out with an exit payment and a very early pension for uncovering massive fraud and incompetence and bringing it to the attention of her superiors.
The worst aspect of the Wuhan Virus is the it’s being used by government and councils as an excuse and methodology to ram through schemes, penalties, restrictions that would never see the light of day had there been proper consultation, oversight, accountability and public meetings, not the “zoom” and “teams” shit that are designed to censor and exclude. There is going to be a reckoning sooner or later. I want going to stand again, but have thrown my hat into the ring with David Kurten and the Heritage Party. I’m a glutton for punishment and I have these corrupt scrotes in my sights.