The government are clueless and ill-informed when it comes to anything technical or vaguely complex.
Just look at this stupid thing about forcing electric only cars to be sold after 2040. This just won't work as the electrical infrastructure simply doesn't exist to supply all these electric vehicles. Let alone the 15% losses involved when moving electric from the point of generation to the domestic consumer.
Then there's the losses of putting the electrical energy into the batteries and taking it out to drive the vehicle. Losses are involved whenever the energy is moved from one form to another.
It's much more efficient to burn liquid fuel at the point of use, transferring the liquid fuel around the country in tankers. At least a fuel tanker arrives at the petrol station with the same amount of fuel that was put in at the refinery. That fuel doesn't loose it's energy while it's sat in the vehicle fuel tank either, unlike a battery which will self discharge.
Time to get off my high horse now, as I'm slightly off topic.