If you want to get the price of vegetables to soar, try the following: get involved in a war with your main supplier of natural gas while banning domestic production of the same product with a lengthy lockdown of “non-essential” business activity thrown in for good measure. How’s that working our for you, Britain? That’s quite the monkey wrench tossed into a culture which seems bent on becoming meatless.
UK supermarkets are currently facing shortages of tomatoes as growers are struggling to afford to heat their greenhouses due to rising energy prices.
Tomato production today is reliant on greenhouses being heated to 20 degrees celsius, but with energy costs continuing to rise and budgets being squeezed, tomato farmers have had to reduce or delay planting crops – leading to a shortage.
“Rising fuel costs has meant transportation costs are now higher. Other input costs such as seeds, fertiliser and feed have also increased between 100 and 400 percent,” Morley said.
You will likely hear claims that these greenhouses should have converted to electric heat, or geothermal from the climate lunatics, because of course they don’t understand that the burning of the NG is also used to increase the CO2 concentrations up to 1000ppm in the greenhouses to improve fruit output
are the newfie greenhouses still in storage??? an early scam model for Tesla courtesy of sprung industries out of calgary
This is Noise. The Signal, is that the word “rationing” is the new “mask” to bully the last Patriots. FILTHY CULTURAL MARXIST Social conditioning. Listen to Neil Oliver this week. Conservative Treehouse has it. Brilliant.
We are the Majority. Peace really is simple. Peace, or else.
Yes, I saw that “study” that suggested we should implement WWII style rationing to save the planet. I thought it better to copy a different relic from WWII. We could take the climate cult religion adherents and put them in camps. That would reduce their “carbon footprint”.
Next … we will hear that greenhouses aren’t … “natural” … and tomatoes aren’t “native” to the English Isles … so the English need to eat their potatoes/kidney pie and shut up.
Potatoes are not native, either.
Kidneys on the other hand…
–Bad News Quillan
But potatoes grow in much colder weather and severe conditions … without need for heated greenhouses. Even Jeremy Clarkson can grow potatoes successfully 🙂
And kidneys will grow anywhere there`s a warm human.
–Bad News
Quite extraordinary. We effed around with the Russians, and now we are going to find out.
We are living through the collapse of Western dominance in our time. Extraordinary.
Hope you all have a bit of land, guns, and can grow food. You are going to need it. Crypto? Useless. When the rolling blackouts hit (like in South Africa) due to lack of funds and expertise to maintain existing infrastructure, much less expand it, electronic money will be less and less reliable. It will trade at a steep discount.
IMHO, crypto should trade at a discount just because of its instability.
That being said, using crypto doesn’t need much power.
You could use it off-grid with around 100 watts.
Transporting and storage. You must assume mass hack attacks with no formal defences, and also total collapse in connectivity, bandwidth and speed.
At that point, physical is identical (vs carrying crypto around on sketchy USB sticks of questionable quality) but more robust and reliable!
Once you figure out how easy it is to grow indoors you wonder why people buy it from the store.
If people embraced growing salads in their unused closets with the same enthusiasm as they do with their dope fix I bet the market would change.
Prohibition drove the price of dope through the roof.
Seems natural that people would grow stuff with a big profit margin.
Now that dope is “decriminalized”, its worth about $200/lb, as opposed to almost 10x that before “decriminalization.”
It wouldn’t surprise me to see people start growing food.
I think we can safely assume most vegans are climate loons, in fact, that’s what many yell about specifically. And now they got no greens. No kale neither, soon.
The author of the essay, unable to see the forest for the trees, right-away blames Brexit for the shortage.
Not having enough vegetables and fuel?
Why does this sound familiar?
Oh, yes – the Second World War.
This time, the domestic fascists are running things.
Didn’t Biden or some FAKE “green” spokeshole insist that Global Warming was this generation’s WWII? And that we must … fight it on the land, in the sea, and in the air?
Aaahh, the old Churchill card … 🙂
They’re trying to motivate we oldsters to follow their LIE. Not happening
They can play that card, but there will be no ” New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.” because they are infected with the same rot.
(everyone only wants to remember the speech as if it ended after “we shall never surrender”)
Let them eat tartar sauce.
‘… a culture which seems bent on becoming
meatlessmeaningless.Nobody’s mouth waters looking at a fruit or vegetables.. How did we evolve to require a diet that was never available to us?.. We didn’t..
Actually the vegetable shortage over here is due to really cold winter weather in Southern Spain and Morroco where most of our tomatoes, cucumbers and the like are sourced. Energy prices for UK hot houses may play a part but only a very minor one.
Increase of 100% is $0.00.
Missing the big picture as usual. Blokes from the UK reported in late 2020 the gas bans and sanctions eliminated practically all nitrogen fertilizers and would affect food prices. The other 20 percent creates urea, which they’ve miraculously used to fend off diesel exhaust emissions. Your life is ruled by energy corporations. Green energy and environmental regulations only serve to increase profits on an ever cheaper, abundant energy source. Technology has made energy extraction so cheap over the past 10 years they’ve decided to also ramp up the prices through engineered crises. 40x profit, now 200x profit.