Staying on a positive theme for the day, lets discuss Fracking. So by complete fluke it turns out that Lancashire is sitting on a mountain of gas.
As with most things, the Accyweb community will want to turn this into a negative immediately, pointing out that there was a small earthquake in Blackpool once. Marge may have fond memories of bucket and spade holidays there as a kid but if you've been there lately you'll notice it's a complete dump, on a par with Hull.
Returning to the benefits of potentially decades of Gas reserves, the positives are numerous:
- jobs, jobs, jobs - construction, process, research, operations, sales the list is endless and for one they'll be in your county.
- Youth unemployment is over 20% so read point 1 again.
- cheaper gas bills.
- reduced reliance on Middle East and Russia.
- Balance of Payments improves as we export more.
- Huge Tax windfall for government. We owe 1.2 Trillion pounds so this matters.
- Scotland is stupid enough to vote yes to devolution, so I welcome energy self sufficiency for England.
Previously on this forum people have passionately advocated pulling resources out of the ground even though we were doing it at a massive financial loss (coal mining). Here we have an opportunity to obtain an energy resource and make money on it to the benefit of most of the country. Observations and views welcome.