ED Miliband yesterday insisted drilling more fossil fuels will not cut bills — as his Net Zero policy was blasted by the US energy envoy.
The Energy Secretary was ambushed by Trump official Tommy Joyce at his own London summit.
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Mr Miliband insists increasing fossil fuel production would make no difference to energy prices here, which are four times higher than in the US.
He has banned new North Sea oil and gas licences — while US President Donald Trump’s administration has vowed to “drill, baby drill”.
But Mr Joyce launched into an onslaught against Red Ed and Labour’s green agenda.
At the international energy summit, he said Net Zero efforts to halt global warming were restricting energy supplies and giving too much power to China.
He told the conference: “We oppose these harmful and dangerous policies. This is not energy security and we know exactly where it leads.
“These policies have been embraced by many, not just the US, and harm lives.”
Mr Miliband had earlier dismissed calls to increase oil and gas production here.
He told the BBC: “Fossil fuels are not going to get us out of our energy bill situation.
“There is only one answer, which is clean home-grown power which we control.”
But Tory MP Nick Timothy told The Sun: “Ed Miliband is clearly on another planet.
“He wants to stop drilling in the North Sea, but import the same oil and gas from the same seabed — from Norway.
“The Norwegians get the profits and the tax revenues, and we get the costs and the energy insecurity.”
Reform UK’s Richard Tice added: “If we started our own domestic production of shale gas, we too would have much lower energy prices.”
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