If anything good is to come out of the Iranian conflict, is that it has focused minds that fossil fuels are not good although we may get to the result through economics rather than because we are destroying our planet.
The United Nations today said that the conflict in Iran has: supercharged the boom in renewable power' and with perfect timing the Automobile Association announced that electric vehicle numbers in Britain have hit a record high of two million amidst a worldwide buying spree and further news that Britons have installed new solar power at the highest monthly rate in 10 years. New electric vehicle sales in March were up 66% in Germany and 69% in France and by 72% in Italy as as the rising cost of petrol highlights the cheaper power available from a plug.
Oil and gas prices have soared as Trump and Netanyahu's disastrous conflict in Iran chokes off about a fifth of global oil supplies and spreads misery.
'Those who've fought to keep the world hooked on fossil fuels are inadvertently supercharging the global renewables boom' the man from the UN said and the energy secretary of the Philippines agreed, saying that the conflict had: 'Accelerated the development of renewable energy and storage is both a strategic necessity and a national imperative and France this week published a national plan to phase out fossil fuels entirely by 2030, oil by 2045 and gas by 2050.
At the world's first-ever conference dedicated to ditching fossil fuels, held in Colombia this week and attended by 56 countries, it was announced that: 'The crisis has accelerated trends that were already underway' and that 'the universal theme is turning away from global energy markets and into regional ones where nations feel they can better guarantee their security' which obviously is a disaster for the Gulf States but then better for the rest of us, so that's fair.
Thursday, 30 April 2026
Iran War Silver Lining
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