Public Support Net Zer0–But Don’t Want To Pay For It! – Watts Up With That?

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By Paul Homewood

There’s a new poll out from YouGov on Net Zero:

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/53366-how-far-does-the-public-support-net-zero

No doubt the Net Zero promoting lobby will run with the headline poll:

It’s like asking if you support Xmas or saving fluffy seals. It is a meaningless question, especially given the propaganda surrounding Net Zero and the lack of understanding about how it will be achieved (or not),

But when we get to some of the implications, the answers reverse themselves drastically:

There are large majorities against banning gas boilers, banning petrol cars, new taxes on meat and taxing gas bills.  All these are either already government policy or are being actively considered.

Even banning gas power stations is disapproved of, Only new nuclear and taxes on frequent flyers get net approval. The former interestingly gets most support from those opposed to Net Zero. The latter gets approval for the simple reason that it does not affect the vast majority of people.

We get similar results from another question:

Pain free solutions are popular – planting more trees, subsidies for insulation, single use plastic bans. Increasing fuel duty, blanket flight taxes and rationing meat are extremely unpopular.

I don’t think we need to be psychics to guess what the answer would have been to the question – “Would you be prepared to pay £1000 a year for Net Zero”? Given that this is pretty much what every household pays, without realising it, it is a shame it was not.

As I have often commented, Net Zero has long ben sold on the basis of easy, painless solutions – nice, clean renewable energy, planting trees and so on.

Attention is being diverted away from costs already being incurred by, for instance, blaming high electricity prices on “sky high gas prices”.

The truth has been deliberately kept from the public. If they knew the harsh reality, most would not support Net Zero at all.