I know Booker opposes the idea that the world is warming, that the problems are man made etc and will go to great lengths to prove his side of the argument but he does argue a compelling case against those vested interests who profit from this headlong rush to throw our taxes at "Renewables" ~ most of which will not work.
The fact is that we are going to run out of fossil fuels eventually. There is estimated to be enough coal under Wales to supply our needs in the UK for several centuries to come but between them Maggie T and Arthur Scargill more or less made that a no-no.
I accept that the fossil fuel stocks are becoming less with every passing day and they will not renew so we must find alternatives. (Actually given enough time and the normal climatic cycles that the Earth has gone through over the millions of years that it has existed and continues to go through it would, if you removed mankind from the equation, be perfectly possible that the fossils would be renewed ~ they are after all only dead wood and the skeletons of sea creatures) At our current state of evolution about the best we can come up with is Nuclear ~ we may, in the future, discover something better (Think Star Trek) but it is now just about too late for us to build the nuclear reactors that we will need. We have, in any event, just about wrecked our own nuclear industry, losing all the accumulated knowledge and research scientists in the process, on the rocks of political appeasement of the anti brigade who really have far more influence than their arguments can sustain. So we will need the coal from Wales, Yorkshire and Kent to keep us going whilst we rebuild our nuclear capability.
Meanwhile we really ought to accept that we cannot risk being reliant for fuel on the whims of OPEC, Muslims, Communist South American Countries or Comrade Putin and his successors. They may want our money at the moment but as soon as they realise that China will pay more then they will shut us down. They will shut us down if we even look at them the wrong way. The Saudis will not be able to resist the rabid Muslims forever. No ~ our only hope is to become as self sufficient as we can. Fvck Al Gore and his cohort. They are the appeasers and must be ignored if we are to hold onto anything worth saving of our way of life.