Is it unreasonable to expect politicians to have a reasonable sense of vision, a clear idea of where things are going? Shouldn’t they have an understanding of the factors that will determine our future, which concepts are absolute and indisputable truths, and which reactions are simply due to fear of change?
For instance: “the sun doesn’t shine all the time.” A statement of such obvious simplicity as to be frightening. Politicizing energy policy by dismissing solar energy as “left-wing” is, to say the least, a dangerous game and not the direction we want to go.
Only the irresponsible or ignorant still insist that there is any other future for energy than renewables. In fact, for some time now, they have been the present, and without a shadow of a doubt, the cheapest way to produce energy. And given , they will become more and more so. Any other energy generation policy than renewables is the wrong policy.
Dismissing renewables because “the sun doesn’t shine at night” or “the wind doesn’t always blow” reflects a lazy…
