Far from my being in la-la land, the right hon. Gentleman has very effectively not answered my question. I said that if we were to look at a fuel bill to try to ascertain which elements made it high, we would find that it was gas rather than renewables. Yes, renewables have a greater degree of subsidy now, but that is because they are new. They have a rate that will enable them to come to grid parity very soon. Gas, by contrast, is an old technology and hardly needs those kinds of subsidies.
UK Shale Gas
Proceeding contribution from
Caroline Lucas
(Green Party)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 18 July 2013.
It occurred during Adjournment debate
and
Backbench debate on UK Shale Gas.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
566 c329WH 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Subjects
Librarians' tools
Timestamp
2022-08-30 19:20:52 +0100
URI
http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2013-07-18/13071889000168
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2013-07-18/13071889000168
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2013-07-18/13071889000168