Soaring energy prices now £6k a year

[JulyDreams]

Sorry if there is another thread on this? Daily Mail have just released an article to say the annual prices are now 'set' to apparently go up to £6k from spring 2023. How is everyone coping?

Thank you, I'm with British Gas, will check if they are doing anything, and ask them to if they are not. Cheers.

You do realise that your money goes to them regardless? the council gets a bill from the water company to pay them from the money you paid to the council, if they put the cost up the council put your bill up, you are just not directly liable for it, the council are, you are liable to the council on behalf of the water company

Yes, Scottish councils aren't providing water, they're paying the water company for it. However, the water company, Scottish Water, is state owned. There's no shareholders, no creaming off of the profits. Scottish Water can invest in improvements of the water infrastructure for the benefit of Scottish people, which is something that the private water companies in England have not done as it eats into their profits. The situation that we have in England, is that it's cheaper for the water companies to just pay the fines for spewing raw sewage into our waterways, than it is to invest in improvements in their infrastructure so that happens less frequently. The regulator is completely impotent. Those fines just get pushed back on to the customer in increased bills, with the pretence that of yes, this time they'll invest in improvements. But those improvements haven't materialised in the three decades that our water has been privatised. But at least we don't live under the tyranny of socialism, with publicly owned water, like Scotland, heh?