{"id":376732,"date":"2025-04-29T09:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T07:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=376732"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T07:37:45","slug":"what-international-gas-market-mr-miliband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=376732","title":{"rendered":"What International Gas Market, Mr\u00a0Miliband?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"509\" data-attachment-id=\"351921\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=351921\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0Move-Along-Theres-Nothing-To-See-Here-Please-Disperse.jpg?fit=1024%2C721&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,721\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Move Along There&amp;#8217;s Nothing To See Here Please Disperse\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0Move-Along-Theres-Nothing-To-See-Here-Please-Disperse.jpg?fit=723%2C509&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0Move-Along-Theres-Nothing-To-See-Here-Please-Disperse.jpg?resize=723%2C509&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-351921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0Move-Along-Theres-Nothing-To-See-Here-Please-Disperse.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0Move-Along-Theres-Nothing-To-See-Here-Please-Disperse.jpg?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0Move-Along-Theres-Nothing-To-See-Here-Please-Disperse.jpg?resize=768%2C541&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com\/2025\/04\/28\/what-international-gas-market-mr-miliband\/\">NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xl_dzeD_CeY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may have seen Ed Miliband\u2019s car crash interview with Sky the other day, where he insisted that gas prices are set internationally by petro state dictators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe he could explain why UK gas prices are five times those in the US!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"510\" data-attachment-id=\"376735\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=376735\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-653.png?fit=1024%2C723&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,723\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-653.png?fit=723%2C510&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-653.png?resize=723%2C510&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-376735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-653.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-653.png?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-653.png?resize=768%2C542&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heaven help us when a senior Minister does not appear to understand the very simple laws of supply and demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Natural gas, contrary to his naively simplistic beliefs, cannot simply be traded anywhere in the world. Much of the world\u2019s production flows through pipelines and is therefore geographically limited in where it can be sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gas can, of course, be shipped as LNG; but there are constraints in terms of the LNG export capacity available in producing countries, the amount of shipping, and the storage facilities available in importing countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to bring UK gas prices down, you would start by increasing domestic production, not trying to ban it, as Miliband is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen Ed Miliband\u2019s car crash interview with Sky the other day, where he insisted that gas prices are set internationally by petro state dictators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":351921,"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":[691821693,691821012,691818376,691834803],"class_list":{"0":"post-376732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-ed-miliband","9":"tag-liquefied-natural-gas-lng","10":"tag-natural-gas","11":"tag-uk-gas-prices","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0Move-Along-Theres-Nothing-To-See-Here-Please-Disperse.jpg?fit=1024%2C721&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1A0k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":381813,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=381813","url_meta":{"origin":376732,"position":0},"title":"Mad Miliband Is Out Of\u00a0Control","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/06\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Ed Miliband, it seems, is now totally out of control. 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