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THE PRICE OF NET ZERO

Tim Congdon’s discussion of energy prices (“AN OVERDONE ‘EMERGENCY’”, OCTOBER) omitted important factors affecting energy supply by not including the drive to “Net Zero”.

Looking at energy as just the economics of supply and demand misses the effect of political actions. The price of energy is driven up by the adoption of renewables such as wind and solar power because they are inherently less efficient than

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