I’ve been reading articles for years now about energy initiatives in Great Britain, in a politically-motivated effort to force green energy on the citizens of the British Isles.

Today The Daily Caller News Foundation published this report:
Energy wars: Britain faces massive blackouts due to green politics

FTA:  Both UK conservatives and liberals have been pushing for energy price freezes to stem the rising costs of powering and heating homes across the country. In particularly as there are about 4.5 million British families facing “fuel poverty.” The British utility SSE recently announced it was freezing power prices at their current levels until 2016 — but along with the price freeze came 500 layoffs and shelved plans for power expansion.
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Green taxes and environmental opposition have made it difficult for the UK to meet its current energy needs. The country has recently allowed for hydraulic fracturing operations to move forward, but progress has been slow.
The North Sea’s natural gas output has been falling and refineries have been shuttered across the country. The UK has now become a net petroleum importer for the first time since 1984.

According to a report today at msn.com, An estimated 4.5 million UK homes are living in fuel poverty and the Government is not doing enough to tackle the crisis, according to a report.  That is between 18 and 20% of all UK households.   https://money.uk.msn.com/news/45m-uk-homes-in-fuel-poverty-2
On March 19, Nick Butler, in the Financial Times*, ft.com reported:

George Osborne in his Budget speech on Wednesday talked, correctly, about US industrial energy costs being half those of the UK. The situation has deteriorated rapidly over the past five years. His proposed response is worth quoting directly:

“We need to cut our energy costs. We’re going to do this by investing in new sources of energy: new nuclear power, renewables, and a shale gas revolution.”

This must be a speechwriter’s joke. A line written in where the content bears absolutely no relationship to reality. New nuclear at £92.50 a megawatt hour will double the current wholesale price of electricity. New offshore wind on the Department of Energy & Climate Change’s own figures, which many feel are too low, will cost more than £120/Mwhr. These are not secret figures. They are well known in the Treasury, as is the risk of generating capacity failing to meet demand. There was no mention of that little problem.

As we in the United States examine our energy options, which have never been better, with which – for the first time in decades – our nation can become energy independent, we are faced with an EPA that is out of control, and activists that seem to be bent on the destruction of our economy, while living in a fantasy of their own  making.
EPA Violates the Law, Ignores Congress, Seizes Private Land in Wyoming
Feds list lesser prairie chicken as threatened

Could a three-inch lizard collapse the West Texas oil industry?

What has happened, and is happening, in the UK is a cautionary tale that should be examined and studied.
ft.com continues:

Developing our own resources – safely and under good regulatory control – makes every sort of sense. Shale cannot solve all our immediate energy policy challenges but it can underpin a diverse, balanced energy economy. US energy costs are half those in the UK because a shale gas revolution has changed the economics of energy supply. In the absence of shale gas in places such as the UK that gap will widen.

*NOTE:  The Financial Times requires free registration.
Imagine if your energy costs were twice what they are now.  That is what you would be paying in Britain.  Now.