Britain's Power Grid Ready for Disaster

Britain is coming to grips with the reality of not have enough energy to meet rising demand for electricity as well as gasoline. Their government is in denial as they demand sacrifice from the population to move from fossil fuels and nuclear to 'make our planet clean and safe for future generations'. This is the insanity of the liberal left. Man-made global warming psychosis.

The important thing here is if we don't have enough energy now there won't be a generation in the future that will have to worry about energy consumption. Most of their would-be foreparnets died from exposure. Sound extreme? Think about it with environmentalists standing in the way of coal fired plants, more oil exploration and recovery as well as refusing to build nuclear power plants, the cleanest of all energy generations systems.

As we all know these systems take five to six years to build or more and place on line, where as fossil fuel powered units can be on line in half the time. What is the motivation of the liberal Democrats like Pelosi and Reid to turn their backs on this problem by refusing to even talk about the ever increasing need for energy?

I believe they want to wait until after the election, and believing they we win and control congress, will say ' we care and the Republicans don't. We will take care of you. We will dirll now and save the country'. If they don't win. I believe the battle will continue as the congress, controlled by liberal Democrats, will block every attempt to increase our domestic energy supplies.

Just think, if we could stop buying most of our oil from over seas, our trade deficit would be lowered by 700 billion a year. Why are the Democrats against this? Why do the Democrats hate the American people? Better yet, why do the Democrats hate America?

Keep the faith why you ponder these questions before November. Join the battle to save our country from the Democrats.

BLACKOUT BRITAIN WARNING
Daily Express
Sunday September 7,2008
Jason Groves

Britain is “quite simply running out of power” and blackouts are almost inevitable within the next few years.

This is the stark warning from the head of an energy think-tank who believes power cuts could be serious enough to spark civil disorder. Campbell Dunford of the respected Renewable Energy Foundation said: “It’s almost too late to do anything about it. Nothing will stop us having to pay very high prices for power in future.“If we pull our finger out now we can limit blackouts but it’s going to be pretty grim whatever happens.”Gordon Brown pledged last week to end Britain’s reliance on the “dictatorship of oil” but Mr Dunford believes the Prime Minister’s new interest in the security of energy supplies may have come too late.

Only last Thursday, National Grid issued an urgent call for power after a series of power station breakdowns. Suppliers were asked to bring all their available generating capacity online, including costly oil-fired stations.

In May, hundreds of thousands of people in Cleveland, Cheshire, Lincolnshire and London suffered blackouts when seven power stations were closed.The electricity industry estimates it needs to spend £100billion on new stations to ensure supplies.

The “retirement” of a string of nuclear and coal-fired power stations will see 37 per cent of the UK’s generation disappear by 2015, partly because of EU environmental directives. An REF report predicts that the neglect of the power infrastructure will lead to a series of grim consequences, particularly electricity and gas price rises as Britain could be held to ransom by such foreign energy producers as Russia.

Blackouts could force the Government to impose electricity rationing, last seen in the Seventies. The REF report says the Government “should prepare itself to intervene with social policy to prevent hardship and maintain order”. It criticises ministers for focusing too heavily on such untried renewable energy sources as wind and tide power, rather than making sure that secure new power generation was put in place. The report concludes: “A near fatal preoccupation with politically attractive but marginal forms of renewables seems to have caused a blindness towards the weakening of the UK’s power stations and a dangerous and helpless vulnerability to natural gas.” The REF warns that as many as nine million people could be plunged into fuel poverty, defined as spending more than 10 per cent of their income on energy bills.

Ministers are already under massive pressure to do more to help people trapped in fuel poverty this winter because of soaring prices. Up to six million families are expected to face a stark choice between heating and eating following the series of massive energy price rises that have made a mockery of Labour’s target to eradicate fuel poverty by 2016. Mr Dunford said worse was to come: “Certainly we’re going to be heading to eight or nine million in fuel poverty.“The people who are vulnerable are old people and the single mums. They rely on power.“If you are a single mum 14 storeys up in Hackney, you depend on electricity for everything in your life, even the water pumped to your flat, the lifts, the food and so on.“There’s a very real chance that power, will not even be there when you need it. That’s when you start worrying about social disorder.”

Ministers have launched a belated plan to plug Britain’s energy gap, including the construction of a string of nuclear power stations. Power stations take up to a decade to build though and many experts believe the Government’s move has come too late.