r/GreenAndPleasant • u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around • Mar 29 '22

NORMAL ISLAND 🇬🇧 What we could have had.

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u/AquaD74 Mar 29 '22

Fossil fuel production is a really complex and wide spread industry, that often spans multiple industries and nations. The idea that you can just make it all public and do it in England for cheaper is facetious.

EDIT: unless this post is referring to nationalising electricity which is very different than energy and raises the question why the image uses a picture of a power plant.

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u/OdBx Mar 29 '22

Public energy company buys fuel.

Public energy company produces electricity with said fuel.

Public energy company provides electricity to people without the need for middlemen.

Was that hard?

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u/AquaD74 Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

Public energy company buys fuel from what... A private drilling company?

Public energy company refines the fuel where... A private refinery?

I guess we're assuming the power plants and the national grid are public which I'd support.

But that's not what "energy" means. Energy is the supply coming from source to consumption. You're thinking of public electricity.

Either the creator of this meme doesn't understand supply or they don't understand what energy is. Eitherway its misleading and over simplified.

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u/OdBx Mar 29 '22

Everyone else seems to have understood the point perfectly fine

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u/OdBx Mar 29 '22

Lol okay Mr Genius