Fracking bans are idiotic

 Breitbart:

To the delight of green agenda advocates, fracking has once again been banned in England by the UK’s new Prime Minister despite the country facing a serious and potentially years-long energy crisis.

Rishi Sunak, the UK’s newly minted Prime Minister, has once again banned the use of fracking in England despite there being serious fears regarding rolling blackouts this winter as a result of the ongoing energy crisis.

While it was never suggested fracking could help keep the lights on this winter — it will take months to make progress on the energy drilling process that has been banned for years in the UK — increasing the gross energy supply available to the UK has been seen as an important step in making sure another energy crisis like this isn’t able to happen. Among the routes to that are fracking, more drilling for oil and gas in the north sea, nuclear, and offshore wind.

Legalising fracking had been a major policy announcement by the Liz Truss government after confirming the technology as being safe for use. Now, just weeks later, Sunak has reversed the position back to a ban, depriving Britain of one of the energy sources that helped the United States become a net energy exporter.

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The anti-energy left appears to be the biggest proponent of banning fracking.  However, their alternative energy sources really suck providing less energy with less reliability at a greater cost.  The anti-fracking left is unnecessarily raising the cost of living in the area they control.

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