- Location
- Cumbria
I was wondering if the fertiliser plant situation is a sub diffuse from government to take attention away from the control the Russians have on our gas supplyI don’t think high gas prices are anything like the whole story.
Wouldn’t they just increase the price of fertiliser and put the ball in our court if it was purely down to gas prices? After all, foreign imports are struggling for transport and also face the same high gas prices globally, so if CF raised the prices of fertiliser they’d still remain competitive and could still make a profit.
I’d suspect what’s more likely is the plants are old and tired and have been run down through lack of investment and also there are too many people in the chain wanting a cut. If the gas supplier owned a large part of the fertiliser production business then there wouldn’t be a middleman to go bust overnight.
Just as with other fundamental products such as steel and coal they just arent considered vital to the nations strategic interests anymore. They have been left out for the vultures and now when we realise we need them they are merely skeletons stripped of flesh. The spivs who have done this then hold us to ransom.
A shocking dereliction of duty by the government in my view. Zero strategy for primary industries and over reliance on imports combined with eco fascism and an out of sight out of mind policy has got us where we are. And of course “global capitalism” which has no concern at all but for its chief executives.