There has been a deafening silence by the BBC, the press and the digital media over the fact that, in january 2026,there will be a 5 per cent fall in the unit cost of gas to below 6p per unit. No comments on the fact that the increase in bills to consumers is down to the massive costs of renewable electricity.
Once Holyrood introduces a ban on domestic gas the annual household energy bill will escalate to around £7,000, meaning
Scots earning less than the salary of their MSP will be in fuel poverty.
Why the deafening silence from all political parties, especially the Reform Party, over the fact that going green will mean Scotland going poor? Just ask the people working in the oil and gas industries in the North East, at Grangemouth, Mossmorran or those manufacturing buses in Falkirk!
Ian Moir Castle Douglas, Dumfries and
Galloway
The hypocrisy of Labour and the SNP is quite something to behold. They are falling over themselves to hold “summits” to “rescue workers” and to blame Exxon Mobil for refusing a stay of execution when they have known for months closure was on the cards(“alexander blasts SNP Government for‘weaponising’mossmorran closure”, 24 November).
Exxon Mobil was looking for a buyer for at least a year, but beside that, if governments (Tory, Labour and SNP) pursue net zero – that is, shut down oil and gas development in the North Sea and in the meantime tax the hell out of them – of course multinationals will move their plants elsewhere.
The workers and supply firms at Mossmorran are not the victims of a nasty multinational, but of economically misguided zealots in government. The only party that has been consistently clear about the economic madness of net zero is Reform.
Linda Holt Pittenweem, Anstruther, Fife
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