Great Britain has only two days of fossil gas stored after a decline in energy reserves, as more tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) are diverted from their course to Europe towards Asia because of the Iran war.

Great Britain had 6,999 gigawatt hours (GWh) of fossil gas stored on Saturday, according to figures from National Gas, which owns and operates the gas national transmission system. This compares with 9,105 GWh a year earlier.

Maximum capacity is 12 days of gas, and current storage levels equate to under two days of reserves, leading to concerns that Great Britain could run out of gas if the crisis in the Middle East escalates further.

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    There is literally not true: https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/single-family-zoning-reform-highlights-a-breakthrough-in-california-housing-policy/

    “The fact that people just now finally made some headway in solving the problem proves the problem never existed in the first place!”

    Sure, buddy.

    The idea that zoning is why private markets are failing to build supply is delusional, you can look at housing production in the US, tell me when zoning laws changed based on this chart: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST .

    They changed before the chart started. Your “gotcha” demand is disingenuous.

    Private markets just aren’t good at building sufficient adequate housing, because housing isn’t fungible building luxury flats for landlords to further inflate the housing market isn’t the same as building public housing or affordable housing.

    And yet that still has fuck-all to do with windmills and solar panels, so what’s your point? Do you deny that NIMBYs oppose public housing?

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      The fact that people just now finally made some headway in solving the problem proves the problem never existed in the first place

      No it’s just a fact you are lying about San Jose.

      They changed before the chart started. Your “gotcha” demand is disingenuous.

      So if zoning is the most important factor in the undersupply of housing then how come the supply has bounced around between 0.5M and 2.5M new units without zoning changes?

      Do you deny that NIMBYs oppose public housing?

      YIMBYs oppose public housing more often than NIMBYs.

      What’s my point?

      My point is trying to inject your libretarian housing politics focused on zoning to a discussion about gas reserves is stupid.

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        No it’s just a fact you are lying about San Jose.

        You spout nothing but bad faith bullshit and you accuse me of being the one who’s lying? That’s rich.

        The fact that San Jose’s zoning law got overridden by the state two seconds ago doesn’t somehow magically instantly change the entire built environment of the city that resulted from decades and decades of the previous policy, and you fucking know it.

        YIMBYs oppose public housing more often than NIMBYs.

        Cite or GTFO.

        My point is trying to inject your libretarian housing politics focused on zoning to a discussion about gas reserves is stupid.

        THEY WOULDN’T NEED THE GODDAMN GAS RESERVES IF THEY DIDN’T HAVE SO MUCH CAR DEPENDENCY!

        How absolutely moronic and dishonest do you have to be to refuse to acknowledge that extremely basic connection?!

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          Cite or GTFO.

          https://www.deanprestonsf.com/blog/yimby-mobilizing-to-block-affordable-housing-in-and-around-hayes-valley

          THEY WOULDN’T NEED THE GODDAMN GAS RESERVES IF THEY DIDN’T HAVE SO MUCH CAR DEPENDENCY!

          The UK doesn’t have zoning, the car dependency is a result of defunding public transport, not zoning or NIMBYs.

          How absolutely moronic and dishonest do you have to be to refuse to acknowledge that extremely basic connection?!

          The only person lying here is you, San Jose isn’t 95% single family zoned, it is legal to build multi-family units almost everywhere in San Jose.

          And you are also being moronically dishonest claiming that zoning (which doesn’t work that way in the UK) is responsible for the UK’s car dependency.

          You also haven’t explained what’s so bad about Milton Keynes, it’s a mixed use city with local shopping areas planned & built to reduce car dependency the car dependency isn’t a result of planning, it’s a result of market forces allowing supermarkets to undercut local stores, sorry this isn’t Reddit, you can’t pass of some YouTube videos as knowledge about the housing crisis here.