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Robert Best

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The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

I mean, I know the arguments why that may not be wholly credible, but take us through your thinking.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

But if it's costing them money on their bills now, they're going to say, I don't want to pay that now.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

Β£6.9 trillion, just so people understand that, is more than twice UK national income.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

It's a lot of money.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

And can I just ask you, so there's two things.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

Obviously, I think people do understand because it is just straightforward common sense.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

that if home energy system was 100% and business energy system was 100% wind, solar, nuclear, what happens to gas prices in the rest of the world wouldn't matter to us anymore.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

That would be an enormous advantage.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

And since the marginal cost of output from a solar farm or a wind farm is basically zero, that looks like a tremendously exciting place to...

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

end up.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

I can't remember what it is.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

What are we now?

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

About 50% renewables in the UK?

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

All right.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

So 70% clean, including nuclear, something like that.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

What people don't, I think, understand is why we nonetheless are so vulnerable to

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

to the gas price.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

And, you know, because all the international comparisons show that we are probably more vulnerable to the global price of gas than any comparable economy.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

It's one of the reasons why the IMF is forecasting that our economy will slow more than anybody else, because the costs of Trump's war for us are higher than anybody else.

The Rest Is Money
277. How to make green energy a vote winner

And the bit... I know that you are a...