woo-saa
The whole energy crisis thing
I like that reality was like “yo what if the Running Man was like boring?”
Jesus
zackster he’s not the only one being fucked up the arse
Nail on head:
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62892013.amp
YERS!!! What are we gonna spend our trillions on lads?
Ireland and Scotland are over 50% it’s really helping lol.
My electric is going up to 53p per kwh on the 7th, I’ve bought as much as I can afford of the old rate of 40p per kwh.
I’ll tell you something for nothing, if the trillions being “saved by the world” are at the expense of the energy firms, it ain’t happening
I’ve already placed the orders 
I love how at no point in this thread anyone is like “but guys - shouldn’t we be trying to live more sustainably anyway? shouldn’t the floods in Pakistan and the melting of the ice worry all of us? What about Cop26, lads? What about the penguins?”
Nope. It’s just “bent politicians, tax the rich, I want more, more, more”
C_J yep, entitled / victim mentality at it’s finest
C_J Also China is prob pumping out more Co2 per hour than all individual households can save over a year. How do you compete with that?
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I think most people try to be more sustainable, but realistically there limits to what we can achieve with what we have at our disposal (great word to use here lol)
The biggest way we can be more sustainable comes with clean(er) energy, but the big boys won’t be looking at this seriously until they’ve rinsed every natural resource from the planet first.
When we get cleaner energy, from wind farms etc. we know it is much cheaper to be produced as we have already paid for the materials, plants etc. through our green taxes. Will it be given to us cheaper? Will it fuck.
I moved to Bulb a year ago from Eon as I wanted to move to a completely renewable company. I could have fixed in with Eon for 2 years at roughly the same price I had been paying at the time (£115 a month). Bulb only have one tariff - a variable tariff - my bills are now £280 a month and will be going up further in October.
I have just taken this from the Bulb webpage:
“Every year, like all suppliers, we report on the amount of electricity we’ve purchased from which source: coal, gas, nuclear and renewables. For Bulb, it’s simple: 100% of our electricity comes from renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro.”
Yet it costs the same as the energy that comes from non-renewable sources. A scam.
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Old-Dutch
Fuck them off and write them
a snotty letter explaining why.
That’ll teach them!
Massive cunts trick in all seriousness
Starting to think about weapons for the Revolution.
Current thinking is one of those shotguns that looks like a trumpet and one of those things that’s basically a meat-cleaver on a long stick
Penning a nasty little letter right now
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“Essentially, you should consider your electricity to have the same carbon footprint as everyone else’s no matter what tariff you are on,” says Josie Wexler, a researcher at Ethical Consumer. “Ofgem [the energy regulator] should be forcing companies to be much more honest about what ‘100% renewable’ really means.”
“However, many are unaware that because providers rely on the National Grid to distribute electricity, they can’t control its source. Energy is pooled in the grid, and when demand outstrips the availability of renewables, the grid tops up the supply with gas.”
While Bulb state:
Every year, like all suppliers, we report on the amount of electricity we’ve purchased from which source: coal, gas, nuclear and renewables. For Bulb, it’s simple: 100% of our electricity comes from renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro.
So Bulb only buy renewable energy and get a nice little certificate to prove it but can only provide me with whatever they get from the grid Jesus wept.
If it looks like a scam and smells like a scam, it’s probably a fucking scam.
Lol
C_J I love how at no point in this thread anyone is like “but guys - shouldn’t we be trying to live more sustainably anyway?
Perhaps for the middle class. People on low incomes have bigger fish to fry. I doubt the average food bank user is able to cut down on long haul travel, or install solar panels.
There’s no poor people in the UK. Not really. That’s why so many people are desperate to get over here by whatever means necessary.
People here don’t know the meaning of true poverty. If there’s any danger they won’t be able to afford their heating the govt will step in - even a supposedly callous and right wing Tory govt.
People who work hard for not a lot of money have my total respect and in my opinion deserve the support of the more fortunate in society because (apart from the moral aspect) if they are not supported they’ll have no choice but to break the law. That’s why I always vote for lower taxes and higher minimum wages and better standards of free education and healthcare.
watch this space Vinny
nah. lol. The Tories obviously.
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C_J There’s no poor people in the UK. Not really. That’s why so many people are desperate to get over here by whatever means necessary.
fucking hell CJ. Put your rod away.
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Amps these cunts will only pass on the additional costs to the consumer.
8 days later
Who has cancelled their direct debit then? Apparently 200,000 signed up to DontPayUK
Don’t fancy the poor credit score myself
2 months later
How much are everyone’s bills creeping up now the temperatures are dropping?
We used over £10 of gas for one day last week lol!
Apparently Jeremy says we should get used to rationing gas/electric, it’s become a luxury in 2022
very bizarre comment from Jeremy basically admitting this will not be improving but only getting worse
Almost nobody heats with gas in Finland, but electricity is around 30-40 c per kwh now (which for us means about 8 € day), and heating oil is 1,6 € litre. We have a combination air heat pump/ oil furnace-system, and we have to keep turning one up and one down depending on the price of electricity. Last winter we didn’t use the oil much at all.