Lord Stern, whose discredited report still forms the rationale for the Government’s energy policy, calculated in 2006 the amount by which the price of hydrocarbons needed to be increased in order to decarbonise the economy. Since then, the price of hydrocarbons has risen faster and further than either Lord Stern or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change thought sufficient, so why does my right hon. Friend propose to pile Pelion upon Ossa by burdening British industry and households with these tripled taxes?
Energy Policy
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Lilley
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 29 November 2012.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Energy Policy.
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