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Posted on 23/09/2021 11:32 by Metheven

How come the majority of fertiliser producers in this country and its by product of CO2 is reliant on American companies, that can switch on or switch off its production on a whim when gas prices are hiked?

Important products to keep this country ticking over should all be majority controlled by this country. We are now gifting these companies millions of ££s to cover the hike in gas prices so that they reopen their plants.

Ludicrous.

Posted on 23/09/2021 11:32 by Metheven

How come the majority of fertiliser producers in this country and its by product of CO2 is reliant on American companies, that can switch on or switch off its production on a whim when gas prices are hiked?

Important products to keep this country ticking over should all be majority controlled by this country. We are now gifting these companies millions of ££s to cover the hike in gas prices so that they reopen their plants.

Ludicrous.

Posted on 23/09/2021 11:32 by Metheven

How come the majority of fertiliser producers in this country and its by product of CO2 is reliant on American companies, that can switch on or switch off its production on a whim when gas prices are hiked?

Important products to keep this country ticking over should all be majority controlled by this country. We are now gifting these companies millions of ££s to cover the hike in gas prices so that they reopen their plants.

Ludicrous.

Posted on 23/09/2021 11:59 by brue

Two plants had been shut down for maintenance, if you read the details. Norway is involved over here too. It's one of those combinations of events that leads to a bad situation. It can happen in other industries too, like energy supplies. 

Posted on 23/09/2021 11:32 by Metheven

How come the majority of fertiliser producers in this country and its by product of CO2 is reliant on American companies, that can switch on or switch off its production on a whim when gas prices are hiked?

Important products to keep this country ticking over should all be majority controlled by this country. We are now gifting these companies millions of ££s to cover the hike in gas prices so that they reopen their plants.

Ludicrous.

Posted on 23/09/2021 12:21 by

Covid and Brexit have certainly exposed the UK's general vulnerabilities to foreign ownership and influence. It has  also shone a light on the incompetence of successive UK governments who have allowed us to get into this predicament.  

Posted on 23/09/2021 11:32 by Metheven

How come the majority of fertiliser producers in this country and its by product of CO2 is reliant on American companies, that can switch on or switch off its production on a whim when gas prices are hiked?

Important products to keep this country ticking over should all be majority controlled by this country. We are now gifting these companies millions of ££s to cover the hike in gas prices so that they reopen their plants.

Ludicrous.

Posted on 23/09/2021 12:29 by

We got into this situation in the mid to late 1980s with wholesale privatisations