Coal power can help cut energy bills – Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Richard Wood, Farnley Tyas.
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What should be done to ease the energy crisis?

BESIDES reviewing the 25 per cent climate levy and five per cent VAT on electricity bills, an immediate way to help negate current energy prices is to allow the remaining coal-fired power stations to contribute more fully to electricity production and give security of supply and affordability to offset the ever increasing cost of gas, our primary source of fuel.

Coal is currently cheaper than most alternatives available. Our one per cent contribution to global emissions and current subsidy costs to reduce further emissions are now coming at an unacceptable price to the householder and business.

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As previous contributors have pointed out, if the UK did not exist, that one per cent would make no different to global emission targets.

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What should be done to ease the energy crisis?

This may be an anathema to current government policies and the Greens, but we need to avoid further fuel poverty for people who cannot afford the impending rise in energy costs. This is called reality. Any well run company would not be afraid to change its direction if it needed to, so why not the Government?

From: Malcolm Parkin, Kinnesswood, Kinross.

RISING wholesale energy prices will make life difficult for many households.

But over the years our national debt has increased effortlessly from £350bn in 1997 to a staggering £2,500bn today. The last £400bn because of Covid. In short, whenever money has been needed, it has been found, and no questions asked. So the Government could simply just finance the present wholesale price rise, allowing retail cost to the consumer to stay the same. This cost could be added to the national debt and forgotten about, just as all other emergencies have been. And it would come from thin air. Computer entries in cyberspace. Just as the money for our pointless wars did.

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What should be done to ease the energy crisis?

From: Phyllis Capstick, Hellifield, Skipton.

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FARMERS are now going to be paid to re-wild the countryside, so will most of our food be coming from China along with almost everything else?

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