{"id":263307,"date":"2023-06-22T12:53:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T10:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263307"},"modified":"2023-06-22T13:00:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T11:00:04","slug":"62-of-uk-say-reducing-bills-is-more-important-than-carbon-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263307","title":{"rendered":"62% of UK say reducing bills is more important than carbon targets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After thirty years of propaganda the people aren\u2019t buying the crisis. The UK Sun<\/a> polled 2,000 people<\/a> and found that 60% think the government should be reducing their bills rather than worrying about reaching Net Zero. Barely 20% thought Net Zero was more important \u2014 and they were presumably the only ones who could still afford to pay their bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bigger problem is that it\u2019s not democracy. The UniParty just don\u2019t seem interested in winning votes. They\u2019re not fighting \u201cover the centre\u201d, they\u2019re fighting over the most extreme left 20%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And ponder that these dismal results come despite 65 per cent of people thinking Net Zero is somehow a useful idea. Imagine what the polls would be like when people find out that carbon dioxide feeds the world and the Sun controls the climate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hat tip to\u00a0NetZeroWatch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Sun poll shows clueless MPs<\/a> have NO idea of the pain policies like Net Zero inflict on ordinary Brit families<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Harry Cole,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A massive 62 per cent told a YouGov poll for The Sun that getting prices down<\/a> is more important than achieving carbon neutral status by midway through this century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Households face paying out at least \u00a310,000 for\u00a0new central heating systems<\/a>\u00a0such as\u00a0heat pumps<\/a>\u00a0and an average \u00a350,000 for a green car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pretend the conservatives were conservative. Pretend they cared about the voters. When asked if Ministers should prioritize keeping prices down over reaching Net Zero, fully 76% of conservative voters agreed, and half of Labor voters did too. If, hypothetically, one major party said they\u2019d build cheap reliable electricity, while the other spouted off about pagan weather control, 60% of the electorate are there for the picking\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nearly half the country is fed up and every protest they see on the news just makes them angrier:<\/p>\n\n\n

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50% of voters don\u2019t want to ban petrol driven cars too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Half the country is being ignored (and the other half get their \u201cnews\u201d from the BBC?)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Does half the country matter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read it all at The Sun.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poll Results at YouGov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After thirty years of propaganda the people aren\u2019t buying the crisis.\u00a0The UK Sun\u00a0polled 2,000 people\u00a0and found that 60% think the government should be reducing their bills rather than worrying about reaching Net Zero. Barely 20% thought Net Zero was more important \u2014 and they were presumably the only ones who could still afford to pay their bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":263317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818076,691818154,691820408,691818248],"class_list":{"0":"post-263307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-co2","9":"tag-net-zero","10":"tag-reducing-bills","11":"tag-uk","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/00net-zero-istock-1190148959.jpg?fit=2048%2C1299&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-16uT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":271749,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=271749","url_meta":{"origin":263307,"position":0},"title":"What Do Supporters of Net Zero\u00a0Believe?","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/08\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Some sceptics (including YT) see Net Zero as a colossal folly, tantamount to national suicide for the UK. 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