Vested interests block every change

Published date04 April 2024
Publication titleEvening Chronicle
We're never going to get this if the government only listens to old industries unwilling to change

The oil industry is losing out to renewables, but rather than speeding up change they are cancelling green initiatives and concentrating on getting concessions from our energy minister.

The gas boiler industry has been presented with an achievable transition to heat pumps but they reacted by arbitrarily increasing the cost of gas boilers and then falsely arguing that it was necessary, blackmailing the energy secretary to grant a delay.

The car industry had a long term plan to gradually introduce electric cars, but this has been put back, causing confusion to drivers and investors, due to lobbying by a few firms who gambled on hydrogen fuels and now find themselves at a disadvantage in the EV market.

Food companies managed to derail every recommendation by the Food Tsar appointed to advise on children's health and reducing obesity and therefore the...

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