It’s amazing how stupid people can be
It’s amazing how stupid people can be
The Guardian, which heartily endorsed all the policies that led to high energy prices while denying the reality that they make freezing weather a disaster, complains that “Nine million homes will face higher energy bills from Wednesday as Britain braces for freezing temperatures and snow warnings for the new year period.” Snow? The stuff we were told in 2007 children wouldn’t recognize? And what of the miracle of reliable, cheap alternative energy to run the massive air conditioning units that will replace probably-banned furnaces as the UK boils? It seems someone has blundered… and a lot of other people are going to pay a high price for their ignorant arrogance.
Who saw that one coming? Well, as Margaret Thatcher warned that same nation, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” And, we add, the problem with the sort of economists who scoffed at Thatcher is that, as Henry Hazlitt warned all of us back when Thatcher was still studying chemistry at Oxford, “Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.”
Thus it is that in Britain today that tomorrow has arrived:
“The average energy bill for households across England, Scotland and Wales will rise by 1.2% from New Year’s Day to £1,738 a year for a typical household after the energy regulator raised its cap on gas and electricity charges.”
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The Guardian, which heartily endorsed all the policies that led to high energy prices while denying the reality that they make freezing weather a disaster, complains that “Nine million homes will face higher energy bills from Wednesday as Britain braces for freezing temperatures and snow warnings for the new year period.” Snow? The stuff we were told in 2007 children wouldn’t recognize? And what of the miracle of reliable, cheap alternative energy to run the massive air conditioning units that will replace probably-banned furnaces as the UK boils? It seems someone has blundered… and a lot of other people are going to pay a high price for their ignorant arrogance.
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Who saw that one coming? Well, as Margaret Thatcher warned that same nation, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” And, we add, the problem with the sort of economists who scoffed at Thatcher is that, as Henry Hazlitt warned all of us back when Thatcher was still studying chemistry at Oxford, “Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.”
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Thus it is that in Britain today that tomorrow has arrived:
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“The average energy bill for households across England, Scotland and Wales will rise by 1.2% from New Year’s Day to £1,738 a year for a typical household after the energy regulator raised its cap on gas and electricity charges.”