00:00Global oil supplies, they're down 20%. That's significant.
00:05So what levers do you think the government is actually considering,
00:08as you and I speak to each other, to tackle that cost of living impact?
00:12That's real, and it's happening to lots of people living in the UK right now.
00:17Yeah, look, I think the right thing to do on cost of living is to respond to real pressures,
00:21but to target any help.
00:24The last government, the previous government, the Tory government,
00:26were very untargeted in the help that they gave.
00:30And really, in a situation where we are, you know, tightly constrained financially,
00:35the government should focus what it does.
00:37Secondly, the government must do everything it can to encourage people towards a rapid,
00:42a speedier take-up of access to renewable energy.
00:46The more people who install heat pumps or install solar panels,
00:50the sooner you get people off dependency on electricity
00:54and start to generate their own, and, you know, the costs cover themselves within a few years.
01:00So you've got a kind of situation where the transition to renewable fuels,
01:07the transition to a decarbonised network, actually becomes much more important.
01:13And the last decade and a half of the Tory government,
01:16who made no progress on renewables, is regrettable,
01:18because had we spent 14 years building nuclear power stations,
01:22installing solar panels, encouraging the take-up of heating pumps,
01:26then a lot more people would have been insulated,
01:29the way the Spanish population are,
01:31insulated from the impacts of the geopolitical catastrophe that is this war.
01:36let's do it in two hours.
01:37So,
01:37You hear about the state but for contractors how many of you are doing Ernestkamers
01:39So then,
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