How dumb is UK prime minister Rishi Sunak? As it turns out, rather dumb. He said this week he will authorize 100 new licenses to drill for oil and gas in the North Sea and will also approve exploitation of the Rosebank field, and condemnation has come thick and fast from all sources. He is now completely out of alignment with all European Union policies too. In his defense he claims that gas from the North Sea is as much as 4 times cleaner than most other forms of gas, with the exception of Norwegian gas delivered through a pipeline. Other sources go through the processes of LNG preparation and re-gasification and transport, and defenders of the decision cite the…