Why are so many MPs still clueless about the cost of net zero?

Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from the Paris Climate Change Agreement for the second time and reiterated his desire that America should ‘drill, baby drill’. The US president’s decision exposes the naivety of MPs in Britain who, in 2019, nodded through a legal commitment to reaching net zero by 2050, with the hope that it would inspire other countries to follow our example.

In fact, Britain is pretty well alone in voluntarily choosing to ‘leave it in the ground’, as anti-fossil fuel activists like to put it. The US has been following an unashamed policy of achieving national energy security through exploitation of fossil fuels for the past two decades, whoever has been in the White House – and we can be thankful for that because we, too, are increasingly relying of imports of liquified natural gas (LNG) from the US. Most