I'm finding it interesting how much anger is being thrown towards the Energy Suppliers, e.g. British Gas, EDF, Scottish, Octopus, etc etc.
They're absolutely not our friends, but they're making either less profits or a loss in early 2022 and things are going to get worse for them and us as winter 2022 hits.
The real ***** (as usual) are the lovely gas and oil suppliers, who are absolutely rinsing the situation. The government giving £400 energy relief is a ******* joke, they're giving money to Shell, BP and all the other ******** who have been screwing the planet for decades.
A government with any backbone would be attacking the oil giants, but so far... nothing... Shows how corrupt, or unbelievably inept, our current batch of MPs are.
On a final note, it is understandable energy prices are higher this year, but huge profits of oil & gas suppliers is BS and the that's where the gov should step in - not capping the energy prices of the suppliers who run at razor thin margins.
Oh and the UK could have easily avoided such extreme sensitivity to global wholesale markets by having a sensible energy strategy, but as usual, they ignored the writing on the wall for 2 decades and here we are.
I'm a smug ******* right now, and was saying something like this would happen about 5 years ago, purely based on the infrastructure situation of the UK. Spent most of my disposable income over the last 5 years on insulation, solar, off-grid capable battery, heat pump, etc. ~£50k all up. When the power goes out, I'll have light & hot water...