Writing on Western Europe’s most successful political blog today – www.conservativehome.com , I explored one of the themes I developed from the EPC’s launch paper – SECURING OUR ENERGY FUTURE – Why and how it must be done – Energy Efficiency and why it ultimately increases energy consumption. This is a very old idea put forward by Economist William Stanley Jevons in 1865. Yet today, received opinion wants to spend bilions and billons on energy efficiency. So meet William . . .
And read my article here;
Dan Lewis: More energy efficiency will ultimately increase, not reduce, demand for energy
It just shocks me sometimes how much our political class has been so blindingly taken in by the energy efficiency lobby . . .