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Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point.
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If we immediately stopping drilling for oil here, we won't use less oil, we'll use the same amount of oil, but buy it off the Saudis, who suck.
All oil goes on the global market. Drilling for it here doesn't mean we use British oil here, and doesn't meaningfully mean the Saudis produce any less. The only way forward is to wean ourselves off being dependent on oil
I didn't say the Saudis would produce less, I said we'd use the same amount but buy more off the Saudis.
We do need to move away from oil dependence (and we are), but until we do that, we need oil from somewhere and we may as well get it here.
Oil extracted near the UK doesn't get used in the UK - it goes to the global market.
My line of argument does not require that the oil be used here.