Greg Jackson
speaker
647 appearances
38 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 20 Sep
Greg Jackson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Rest Is Money · 304. Why Burnham’s best economic policy would be “do nothing” · 12 Aug 2026
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Uh and more fossil fuels aren't the long term answer because the reality is that industry will never have spare capacity.
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They wouldn't invest in stuff if un unless you're using it every day.
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Uh which means that whenever there's a constraint on supply, prices go up.
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We never used to have an alternative.
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But now with electrification we do.
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First of all, if you use a lot of electricity, it may be possible to get electricity tariffs where you get charged less at certain times of day.
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And a lot of businesses have been able to benefit by shifting their electricity consumption.
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They still use as much energy.
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They just pay less for it.
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Of course, things like heating space can be very expensive and finding ways to do that more efficiently by heating to maybe 18 degrees rather than 21 can make a very big difference.
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But of course, look, the real solution is that Britain needs to escape from this dependence on the global fossil fuel price.
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And that means more electrification, disconnect our electricity price from the gas price and ultimately get more of electricity from British resources.
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First of all, if you use a lot of electricity, it may be possible to get electricity tariffs where you get charged less at certain times of day.
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And a lot of businesses have been able to benefit by shifting their electricity consumption.
voice-verified
They still use as much energy.
voice-verified
They just pay less for it.
voice-verified
Of course, things like heating space can be very expensive and finding ways to do that more efficiently by heating to maybe 18 degrees rather than 21 can make a very big difference.
voice-verified
But of course, look, the real solution is that Britain needs to escape from this dependence on the global fossil fuel price.
voice-verified
And that means more electrification, disconnect our electricity price from the gas price and ultimately get more of electricity from British resources.
voice-verified
First of all, if you use a lot of electricity, it may be possible to get electricity tariffs where you get charged less at certain times of day.
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