Energy Prices (Strictly NO referrals!)

[Hawk Tuah]

Because 'make our own' = public spending = communism.

The free market is the answer. Why own and operate our own essential utilities, when we can outsource it to foreign private and state-owned companies and let them skim off the profits?

Not really about that though, is it. The UK doesn't have the money or the domestic capacity to build a nuclear plant 'in house'.

 

[Brutal biff]

oil prices look like they're taking a bit of a nose dive today. Can't wait until November when it might make a marginal difference at the pumps.

Which year?

 

[Doobedoo]

Petrol in Greece has dropped about 15% or 37c per litre in the last 2 months, has that not been mirrored in the UK? was at a ridiculous 2.30 per litre, now about 1.93. (euros of course)

That’s slightly higher than it was when I went to Crete at the end of April/beginning of May.

 

[Doobedoo]

Not really about that though, is it. The UK doesn't have the money or the domestic capacity to build a nuclear plant 'in house'.

Where is the money for HS2 coming from?

 

[martin363]

That’s slightly higher than it was when I went to Crete at the end of April/beginning of May.

Yes it was about 1.85 end of April, shot up, has now come back down some

 

[Doobedoo]

Yes it was about 1.85 end of April, shot up, has now come back down some

That means prices here are about the same as they were during that same period.

 

[Richie]

Petrol prices should be £1.5x per litre to be considered back to normal. Anyone considering the current 1.7x prices as a good deal have been successfully hoodwinked.

 

[LabR@t]

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[LabR@t]

UK could face blackouts after drought causes European hydropower output to plummet, experts say

Norway has said it could introduce curbs on hydroenergy exports after the dry spell caused reservoir levels to slump

inews.co.uk

If the story is published everyday in multiple sources, i would say it's pretty much inevitable.

I predict no power Dec 25

 

[bigmike20vt]

totally selfish alert from me .... but i hope it is a brown out not a blackout..... if it is a brown out i should be ok, blackout i am buggered with everyone else as i was too tight to pay for off the grid electricity generation.

 

[Doobedoo]

UK could face blackouts after drought causes European hydropower output to plummet, experts say

Norway has said it could introduce curbs on hydroenergy exports after the dry spell caused reservoir levels to slump

inews.co.uk

If the story is published everyday in multiple sources, i would say it's pretty much inevitable.

I predict no power Dec 25

Christmas dinner on the BBQ it is then .

 

[Doobedoo]

totally selfish alert from me .... but i hope it is a brown out not a blackout..... if it is a brown out i should be ok, blackout i am buggered with everyone else as i was too tight to pay for off the grid electricity generation.

We’ll probably be fine just the usual scaremongering going on.

 

[Zatoichi.uK]

Christmas bbq. Excellent.

 

[200sols]

Centrica and Octopus back plan to freeze UK energy bills for two years

‘Tariff deficit fund’ proposed by ScottishPower and Eon would involve banks putting cash into state-backed fund

www.theguardian.com

 

[Doobedoo]

 

[200sols]

Christmas bbq. Excellent.

Cooked my turkey in the pizza oven last year anyway

 

[the shadow]

Christmas bbq. Excellent.

Cheaper than Gas

 

[SpeedFreak]

The guys personal allowance proposal is wrong straight off the bat...

 

[Puzzled]

Centrica and Octopus back plan to freeze UK energy bills for two years

‘Tariff deficit fund’ proposed by ScottishPower and Eon would involve banks putting cash into state-backed fund

www.theguardian.com

Makes sense, we are in an economic war with Russia so should be open to some new ideas to spread out the cost rather than just dumping it on everyone this Winter.

 

[delta0]

The guys personal allowance proposal is wrong straight off the bat...

Causing a brain drain. Would be a perfect way to top off that ‘70s experience