British - Businessman | October 18, 1952 -
If you have spent your life building Ineos, and you find yourself in a crisis, you are going to do anything you can to save what you have been building.
Jim Ratcliffe
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Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It's collegiate. There's not much politics, and we like decent people. We don't like arrogance or bullies.
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It's always been hard work for us to manufacture in the U.K. It's not a particularly profitable place for us.
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The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions.
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The U.K. is already disadvantaged on the wholesale cost of energy, and then it puts taxes on it. Anybody who's an energy user is just going to disappear.
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The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.
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You can't have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows.
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There's no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.
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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.
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Growing Ineos has been a lot of fun.
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Gas is by far and away the most important element of our energy policy.
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Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.
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