Ken's Comments

Faced with growing public dissatisfaction with the high cost of energy in the United Kingdom (UK), a country with some of the highest costs in the world, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is the latest to lie about why energy costs are so high.  Starmer's comment "I'm fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy... because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world." Horse manure. The United Kingdom has high energy costs because they refuse to take steps to make eliminate their dependence on foreign countries for resources.  If Keir Starmer really is "fed up" that the actions of foreign leaders like Trump, Putin, and the Government of Iran are messing with their supply of energy why doesn't he announce that he will undo the policies that prevent the UK from being self-sufficient?  Specifically, if Starmer really cared he could immediately: Announce that Britain will once again mine their coal and build n...

Talk to me about the environment.  Climate change fanatics focus on how the oceans will rise a half inch 50 years from now and how the economy will collapse 100 years from now.  Some of the claims are hard to believe, particularly any economic projections that far in advance, and the messaging of this has been poorly done and divisive.  What people should be talking about, and what I would be interested in, is the environment that exists right now.  People can see those problems and we can personally do something about them right now and this can be explained in a way that unites rather than divides people.  It makes me wonder why the people concerned about climate change people didn't start or stay there. Perhaps that's a reason why I have so little interest in climate change.  The environment used to be important.  Then there was a hue and cry about the Ozone layer being depleted and how soon the Earth would die from that.  Then the crisis bec...