
Not Zero | IEA Book Club with Ross Clark
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The UK's Future in Heavy Manufacturing
Do the UK really have a future in heavy manufacturing yeah well I mean it's a perfectly valid question obviously net zero and carbon targets are not the only influence on why we've been losing manufacturing industry. In case of BASF which you know as well as I do they specifically said well we're not going to invest anymore in Europe because of the price of energy and the green policies pushing up the cost of energy. China has shown no interest in following the west some boycott of Putin's oil and gas on the contrary imports of oil and gas from Russia to China have increased. If you're buying stuff from China you're actually sort of circumventing your own your own sanctions against Putin's oil well
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