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Sunak to drop heat pump targets in fresh retreat from Net Zero (www.ft.com)
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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Planning economic output, without consideration of efficient markets, sounds like a Soviet five year plan

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'll note it was done by the Tories

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm an American living in the heartland. How many is that in Fahrenheit? That is, do Tories like government control of economic output/means of production?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lol they're the right-wing party.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Well that might explain why this Mr. Tory Sunak is dropping this policy. Traditionally, the right-wing are fervent anti-communists

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It'sore that they proposed it and then dropped it because it didn't have the grift in it for them. Communists not involved.