WTH: Britain’s Net Zero Push is Economic Suicide. Robert Bryce Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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UK residents are currently paying some of the highest prices in the world for electricity. How did Brits go from being an energy superpower to showering in the gym because it’s too expensive to heat water at home? Perhaps because both Labour and Tory politicians are banning the production and use of cheap hydrocarbons in the pursuit of a “Net Zero future.” How is Net Zero irreparably damaging Britain’s economy? And what does the UK example mean for other states attempting to permanently phase out hydrocarbons?
Robert Bryce is an author, speaker, and film producer. He has been writing about energy, power, politics, and innovation for more than three decades and is the author of six books on the subject. His most recent book is A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations (PublicAffairs, 2020). Bryce is also the executive producer of the documentary, Juice: How Electricity Explains the World, and the co-producer of the docuseries Juice: Power, Politics & The Grid. He frequently writes on his popular substack robertbryce.substack.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
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| 0:07.0 | Thanks for listening. Here's our show. |
| 0:08.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:10.4 | What's really going on? |
| 0:12.0 | We said, what the hell happened? |
| 0:13.5 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:15.6 | They see what's going on. |
| 0:16.7 | I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:18.2 | What is going on? |
| 0:19.6 | We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on. |
| 0:28.7 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:30.5 | And I'm Mark Dyson. |
| 0:31.5 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:35.1 | Mark, what the hell this week? |
| 0:37.4 | What the hell is going on is we're talking about how net zero is economic suicide and the case study of Britain, which has pursued net zero to the point that they have so dramatically raised electricity prices for their citizens and decimated their GDP in the process, |
| 0:57.8 | that the British economy is in deep, deep trouble, and it's largely due to these radical climate policies. |
| 1:05.4 | It is absolutely inexplicable. First of all, Robert Price is our guest today. He's been on before, |
| 1:10.3 | and he will |
| 1:11.1 | explain the mechanics of this sort of economic suicide. But it's funny, actually, I had a terrible |
| 1:18.1 | Wi-Fi connection, and so we didn't get to have the conversation that Robert and I had before |
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