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Why do I think the people pictured protesting above will also show up to protest against fracking for natural gas in the UK? Somehow I think they don't understand that the world is rapidly running out of free lunches.

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Having picketed just a bit in my lifetime, I have noticed the first to protest are always those that even later protestors would prefer to have nothing to do with. But forest fires need a spark to get started.

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You might very well be right about the protestors. There's a certain hypocrisy in using a service then protesting the cost.

At the same time, the magnitude of the price hikes being bandied about are pretty significant, and that is going to hit the poorest the hardest--and energy in the UK is hardly a deregulated market.

Both the UK and Europe have in the ground enough natural gas and even oil to get through the winter and 2023 at least. But the governments are reluctant to tap it.

I don't say the protesters are right, but they're not entirely wrong, either.

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