Other countries, including Sweden are urging the people to prepare for disasters, including wars, power outage and disasters in general.

www.bbc.co.uk/.../cjr4zwj2lgdo

The climate change scam has left us ' europeans' all vulnerable to the predators of the planet.The arogance of past governance and lack of future proofing our energy has now given us  fossil fueled Chinese made solar and wind systems which are intermittent, expensive and not fit for purpose. Increase the turbines and increase the blackout potential. The muppets in charge are now slowly turning nuclear. 20 years too late. Stock up on candles and pickled foods. 

What's the alternative?  With North Sea oil and gas rapidly running out, we're more and more reliant on imported oil and gas.  At least we've got our own wind and sun.

Simon Barker said:

At least we've got our own wind and sun.

Indeed. I would expect to be able to generate sufficient leccy for 8 - 10 months here on the south coast. It will never replace gas for heating, but it will help.

UK oil and gas is available, also coal.

These are what we should be using while transitioning.

Using foreign fuels is making us poorer, uncompetitive and dependent. That suits some people but not me.

UK oil and gas is available, also coal.

but not that can be extracted at any rate that matches our consumption. As older gas fields effectively dry up, the rate of production falls as we have to go after the deeper stuff. Horizontal high contact drilling helps you deplete the reserve faster, and levels off the decline for a while,  but does not get you any more in total There is no getting away from the fact that the last time gas came out of the sea fast enough to meet our full domestic demand was about 20 years ago.
Oil had its peak about 2004 and we became a net importer instead of a net exporter shortly after, and the economy has never recovered.

Coal we have more of, but again the easy to get stuff has largely been mined, leaving us with reserves uneconomic to extract.

 Very few folk heat their homes with coal or coke these days, and if you ever have, you will recall what a pain it is compared to gas, and its more expensive per  kW.

Mike.

There's no doubt that uk oil will end in the not to distant future.

But why shut production down completely now?

We do have 200 years of coal. And fraking gas is a serious contender to supply us while we transition to nuclear.

mapj1 said:

Very few folk heat their homes with coal or coke these days, and if you ever have, you will recall what a pain it is compared to gas, and its more expensive per  kW.

Not forgetting that house coal has not been available in England for a couple of years. And yes, sitting back and enjoying the warmth of gas CH is much easier than laying a fire and waiting for it to heat the room. When you had domestiques to do that for you before breakfast, it was less of a problem.

Granted, one can bank up a fire overnight, but it seems rather extravagant.

I am surprised that coal is more expensive. Without doubt, what one cannot do is to stockpile gas.

mapj1 said:

Very few folk heat their homes with coal or coke these days, and if you ever have, you will recall what a pain it is compared to gas, and its more expensive per  kW.

Not forgetting that house coal has not been available in England for a couple of years. And yes, sitting back and enjoying the warmth of gas CH is much easier than laying a fire and waiting for it to heat the room. When you had domestiques to do that for you before breakfast, it was less of a problem.

Granted, one can bank up a fire overnight, but it seems rather extravagant.

I am surprised that coal is more expensive. Without doubt, what one cannot do is to stockpile gas.