How will David Cameron keep the lights on?

[Sunsettommy]

Telegraph.co.uk

By Christopher Booker
Published: 6:11PM GMT 06 Mar 2010

EXCERPT:

Neither of the main parties seems to have any idea how we are to meet the looming shortfall in power, warns Christopher Booker.

As the election approaches, two issues should transcend all others.

One, obviously, is what the parties propose to do about the £178 billion deficit in government spending. But another, equally terrifying – as this column has warned for years – is what is to be done to avert the fast-looming crisis in Britain’s electricity supplies. With 40 per cent of our generating capacity due to disappear in the next few years, as 14 of our major nuclear and coal-fired power stations are forced to close, how do the parties propose to keep Britain’s lights on and our computer-dependent economy functioning?

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This is what happens when they are all Eco-morons.

[Derek]

UKIP's energy policy is the ONLY one that makes any sense.
But that does not get mentioned in the media at all...

It is so obvious really, when you live on an island of coal, and your in a depresssion. What would be a sensible idea. ?

How about employing lots of people to dig up coal, to burn to generate cheap reliable energy to sell to business,
thus helping business with a cheap and reliable energy source.
It's so simple, so obvious, and so beneficial, yet
none of the so called "mainstream" political parties will even mention coal. ??????