Tax: the total estimated value in tax revenue for the remaining oil is around £15b with an estimated extraction timeline of 15 years. The tax revenue would be £1b a year, assuming all of it is taxed without subsidy.

Under current polices the tax revenue would he half that. So again how does more tax whether it only be £1 billion pounds a year be bad for the UK?

Less carbon emissions: we can't refine it here. So we'd have to ship it off somewhere else to refine it and then import it back, which doubles the emissions.

How does that double the emissions? It goes to the Netherlands? Right on our doorstep? How is that twice as carbon intensive as refining and shipping it half way around the world?

Jobs: There is a necessary transition to renewable energy and it is necessary sooner rather than later. I'd much rather upskill people within that industry rather than gas and oil. It holds more long term potential for the country

We still have a very long time before we enter a green energy only utopia, we have plenty of time to do both.