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Old 6th March 2009 | 07:24
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G&T ice n slice
 
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From: Cumbria
Ah yes, peppers & "on the vine" tomato

grown in greenhouse hydroponically, heated with "endless, cheap" North Sea gas.

Some years ago I had a working day trip in the Netherlands. Flew out of RTM in an F-28. Had an intersting noise-abatement departure which seemed to involve a fairly tight circular climb, thus I got a panoramic 360 view of the area, which seemed to be very brightly lit. I asked the chap in the seat beside me about this. "Kaboom" I've found his pet hate - commercial greenhouses. All brighly lit all night with special "sun-like-spectrum" floodlights, burning N.S. gas for heating, which gas, apparently now had to be imported from Germany & subsidised to keep to the original pricing agreement when NS gas was 'endless', and how there was so much NS gas the Dutch sold guaranteed volumes for years & years ahead to the Germans and now the gas was running out but we still have to send the guaranteed volumes to the Germans and have to import it back again, and how the wages in the greenhouses picking the tomatos etc were so low we had to import loads of Moroccans to do the work, and....
etc etc for about 40 minutes (right to touchdown at LHR).

But yes, sometimes one suspects that the world has gone mad
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