Chilling story of world gas shortage could be all hot air

THE world, and Britain in particular, is running out of gas. The world and Britain is having to rely on imports from states with giant reserves but which are politically volatile or happy to manipulate the market – countries like Russia, Iran and Qatar.

Shipments of LNG, the liquefied natural gas technology that is supposed to change the world’s energy market, aren’t stopping here and if they are, they are for top dollar.

All this has contrived to push up the price of gas to historic highs. It means that UK homes are paying more than