Also I checked usage with friends. One is using 50% more electricity than me and does not have an electric car. The other is using 3 times as much gas as me in the summer for hot water. There are some qwuick fixes if people looked at their bills
The whole energy crisis thing
I just pay the bills when they come in, don’t even look at the numbers if truth be told.
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There are millions of people in this country already struggling to put food on the table who simply cannot afford to pay these increased prices.
Even if you can afford to pay, it’s pretty sickening to see the levels of profits these companies are making, whilst at the same time being given every tax incentive / relief under the sun.
Buckle up as there’s going to be some massive civil unrest in the UK soon.
It’s not just hoisehold prices that will be affected - this will push the prices of everything else up too as businesses seek to recover their higher costs.
Old-Dutch Amazed how many people still are not getting this.
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NasserAlazzawi I’m getting a bit sick of hearing about this. Not because of the challenge that needs to be addressed but because people I know are actually literally panicking and the media is making it worse.
Those with learned helplessness within them are in actual despair. And those who normally face bigger challenges adequately are heading that way.
People on low incomes are panicking because they are already struggling to pay their bills mate. I dare say many of us here are somewhat immune to these price hikes, but the so called cost of living crisis is real.
Nas is a trustafarian living the dream in Cyprus.
“Crisis?! What Crisis!”
RichM it’s the wholesale that are ripping people off and profiteering - this isn’t inflation, it’s price fixing if it’s anything. The retail end with the like of Octopus are struggling too. It’s cunts like BP, Exxon and British Gas that are pissing down our backs and telling us it’s raining. There needs to be a serious government intervention - taxing them more will just compound the problem. These people are absolute fucking cunts.
It’s fair to comment on it with the average household income being £31k (gross) and your energy bill is 10% of that. People on state pensions who need heat in the winter are really gonna suffer - people need to see beyond their comfortable lives.
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Along_the_Wire It’s cunts like BP, Exxon and British Gas that are pissing down our backs and telling us it’s raining
I really hope these companies get what’s coming to them. Absolute fucking cunts.
On a separate matter, considering the share values in these companies must have gone through the roof, you would expect pensions which are tied into these should also see the benefit of this. I wonder if that will ever materialise
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/aug/26/ofgem-raises-energy-price-cap-to-3549
"In a blow for hard-pressed consumers already struggling with soaring inflation, Ofgem approved the £1,578 increase on the current figure of £1,971 for the average dual-fuel tariff – a rise of 80%.
The cap will be almost treble what it was a year earlier last October, when it was raised to £1,277."
Meanwhile real wages are still below what they were in 2008.
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mono-stereo People on low incomes are panicking because they are already struggling to pay their bills mate.
I know mate, I agree. And I totally agree with @Old-Dutch about civil unrest.
I do wonder if a real solution will come first, or the unrest.
It’s a real problem for normal everyday people. I know hard working teachers and people working good security jobs in the ports and they were telling me how hard it is to make ends meet with one child and a modest lifestyle in a modest area to live.
Like really worried about losing the extra £40 per month to get a new iPhone. But a £130 bill going to what sounds like £400 or £500 per month is fucking nuts.
Some moron was on radio 2 earlier saying ‘everyone going to be fine everyone has excess at the end of the month and everyone has savings’ - people can be so stupid when they think the country is how their immediate circle is.
Old-Dutch fucking price cap? It’s absolutely pitiful, a serious global intervention needs to happen.
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As the overton window slides to the right we all graciously accept a lower quality of living. We don’t feel the full effect because we’re not at the sharp end.
Meanwhile we have BP’s boss (earning 4.5m a year) describing his company as “a cash machine” whilst people in full time work are using food banks.
It’s Andy Carroll I feel sorry for. Bless him!
alistair well he may not have to heat his home this winter. Every cloud etc etc
Not sure how we can be held this much to ransom by wholesale prices when accordng to this we are nearly at 50% renewables vs total consumption
Plus where have all the grants gone for solar and wind power? I live in the country and the wind down here is mental. Stick a turbine in the back garden and solar and we’d be away ……..
You will own nothing and be happy
IndustryStandard The 50% is still enormous. I’d imagine the renewable wholesalers are getting the slice of the action too - when in Rome and all that. Cunts.
Turn off the fucking news. Saves you a lot of energy. Mentally that is.