The whole energy crisis thing
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.
Mad_Cyril I have it on good authority that its the hooseholds, too
It’s the OAP’s who’ve suffered pension shortfalls that I feel sorry for. Put into the system all their life and had the carpet pulled from beneath them when they need it the most.
On the other hand, these professional wellfair parents who have got 6 kids and another on the way, sucking from the system because it pays better than a real job, constantly make bad decisions and choices in life, who didn’t want to live within their means from the beginning…not so much.
ScottBailey On the other hand, these professional wellfair parents who have got 6 kids and another on the way, sucking from the system because it pays better than a real job, constantly make bad decisions and choices in life, who didn’t want to live within their means from the beginning…not so much.
Here we fucking go, LOL
Scott’s been at the daily mail again.
Wally to be fair it’s got a decent gossip column 
Given how many energy providers in the U.K. have been going bust it’s clearly not them that are creaming off profits - they’re buying energy at stratospheric prices and selling it to consumers here at the price cap, which in many cases isn’t profitable… so they go bust.
Any companies that own oil and gas fields are the ones that are profiting … or the countries that export energy (and tax those exports) - Russia particularly … do British Gas own any natural gas fields? Don’t think so and so they’re unlikely to be profiteering…
ScottBailey On the other hand, these professional wellfair parents who have got 6 kids and another on the way, sucking from the system because it pays better than a real job, constantly make bad decisions and choices in life, who didn’t want to live within their means from the beginning…not so much.
…fucking hell Scott, you really think in the grand scheme of things they are the problem!?
Utilities companys should be nationalised. They fail at the first hurdle of free market economics in that different providers cannot offer different levels of service. Can provider A pump electricity into my house more efficiently than provider B? Nope. Can they provide a higher quality electicity? Nope. Can I live without electricity? Nope. I’m sure it’s classified as a need, not a want in various places which it should be.
It makes the whole enterprise a cartel between providers where they can keep one upping on the price because….. why not…. Others will bump thier prices in tandem and the customer has no where to go.
Nationalise the lot.
The one thing that no one seems to talk about is how it will affect the housing market. People won’t be able to borrow as much as they used to, so, I would expect this to affect property values in the future.
I bumped into a mate in Morrisons today who works for a company which provides electricity to small businesses. He said it’s going to more than double in October but then said just wait until next year. I then asked him what could he do to help them. Not a lot was his reply.
Unbroken1 Nope. Wasn’t laying blame for the cost of energy at their door. It’s gross what the energy companies are doing, and the problem lays squarely with them. Personally I think we should’ve gone full tilt with expanding nuclear energy many moons ago, but the amount of red tape, political toing and froing, and “no to nuclear” protesting that’s dragged places like Hinkley Point into the quagmire has been painful to watch.
I was just pointing out where my sympathy lies more as a result of the above.
Wally Think I’m in agreeance with this. Just look at the rail network as an example. Privatisation was supposed to save it from ruin, but instead it’s turned into an utter shit show! Didn’t stop the prices skyrocketing in the process either.