A diesel in the shed

The UK has also been badly infected by the green energy virus. Engineers warned that this intermittent and unpredictable supply had increased the risk of blackouts, so the UK government offered subsidies for emergency backup power. This subsidy, plus consumer concerns, put so many diesels in British sheds that they now provide a major backup capacity for UK electricity.

Many Spaniards also found a diesel in the shed was very profitable. Their government had been drinking green-ale and offered attractive subsidies for any solar power produced. The subsidy was very successful - so successful that someone eventually noticed that some suppliers were even producing "solar" power at night. It was coming from the diesels in their sheds.

Finally, our green media likes to feature some green energy enthusiast who is "off the grid". But it usually emerges later in the show that there is a diesel in their shed too.

Those who remember the days of relying on a noisy smelly diesel in the shed have no wish to be dragged back there by green zealots.