Gordon Brown is planning to tell the Saudis that they need to spend some of their oil profits helping us not to need their oil so much. As stupid as that sounds, there’s a key line that makes it even worse:
The prime minister wants oil producers to invest some of their profits in long-term energy projects in Britain, such as wind farms and nuclear power.
We are an oil producing country, though not to the scale of Saudi Arabia of course, and we’ve shown only half-hearted interest in spending on renewables. I can’t imagine why the Saudis would want to do better for us than we have for ourselves.
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Why are these people even allowed to talk about anything that has electricity running through it?
In case that wasn’t rhetorical, the correct answer is “No”