Germany has great skill levels, great infrastructure, high-quality plant. If you go to the U.K., we’re very creative, and we’ve got the language, but energy costs are pretty much the most expensive in the Western world; pensions are pretty expensive, and the skills are significantly below those in Germany and the U.S. Jim Ratcliffe Read Quote
If you go to the U.S., you’ve got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost. Jim Ratcliffe Read Quote
In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share. Jim Ratcliffe Read Quote
Shale is one answer to the U.K.’s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America. Jim Ratcliffe Read Quote
It would be nice if areas could be revitalised – like places in the U.S. such as Pittsburgh, for example, which have been transformed through shale. There you have shiny cars in a shiny city because of the development of shale in an old industrial heartland. Jim Ratcliffe Read Quote
You can’t have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows. Jim Ratcliffe Read Quote
The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don’t need Brussels telling them how to manage things. Jim Ratcliffe Read Quote
I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy. Jim Ratcliffe Read Quote