Surely they can’t expect us to pay 240 per month for power!

[Ellie198712]

Just read Martin Lewis’s latest email and it’s predicting average bills of £2900 per year!! Surely the government will need to step in and subsidise this cost. Our current bill is about 100 per month, and this just seems untenable for the vast majority

Or wear warm clothes. I am a child of the 70s. I did my A level study by candlelight. Every one will survive, except the very elderly, who will pass away when their time comes. The rest of us will improvise, and get by.

Electric cars start at c £16,000 for brand new bottom of the range, with some second hand available and others available on HP schemes. Lots of people spend more than this on petrol vehicles (though not me personally) and theres no eye rolls about those being on the market or being a valid choice someone might make.

A house? You were lucky to have a house! We used to sleep in one room, 26 of us. And half the floor was missing. We were all huddled in one corner, for fear of falling.

You were lucky to have a room. We used to live in corridors.

Oh...We used to dream 'a livin' in a corridor. Woulda' been a palace for us. We used to live in an old watertank on top of a rubbish tip. Got Woked up every mornin by havin the lot of the rotten fish dumped all over us.

House? Why woulda say house? It were only a hole in the ground, covered by a couple foot o torn canvas. But they were house to us!

We were evicted from our hole in the ground. We had to go livin in lake.

Ours combined was 95 and went up to 132 in Jan. dreading april and october

I'm considering getting a £5k loan & putting solar panels in. I don't think the price of fuel is going to improve anytime soon.

one difference between then and now is homes are double glazed...that was a rarity in the 70's

mine isn't

Insulate Britain is a lovely pipedream. Until every new house given planning consent HAS to incorporate solar and efficiency measures, there's no real gain.

Quite honestly, if I didn't have others in the home to think of I would probably consider asking for my supply of gas or electric to be cut off.
I had no electric once for weeks as I couldn't afford the pre payment meter so I know I can do it.
I'm healthy and able bodied though. I think knocks need to be taken by the healthy/ rich to protect those more vulnerable.

Ours is going up from 255 to 314 in April, we are with bulb. Actively looking at ways to cut down, the electric oven is not going on much for a start..

I'm with you @13yearslater
The alternative is unthinkable

@HereComesSpringAgain

£240 a month is equal to our sky tv and mobile phone costs

so its a choice we will need to make

But it’s not the price of most people’s! We pay £15 per month for our phones (sim only), and £25 for broadband. No Sky. The average family isn’t spending £240 per month on Sky

@BitterTits

Who can afford a fucking electric car in the first place?

Better things to spend my money on, electric cars are still too crap for me to bother.

Is it this bad in Europe, Australia, USA or are we facing higher rises than the rest of the world? It is very scary that prices for food, petrol, bills etc just seem to be rising week after week... I dread to think what they'll be by December...

@XingMing

Or wear warm clothes. I am a child of the 70s. I did my A level study by candlelight. Every one will survive, except the very elderly, who will pass away when their time comes. The rest of us will improvise, and get by.

That's cheerful. It's 2022. We should be doing more than just get by, in our masses! And now can you say that so matter of factly about the elderly?

Quite honestly, if I didn't have others in the home to think of I would probably consider asking for my supply of gas or electric to be cut off.
...I think knocks need to be taken by the healthy/ rich to protect those more vulnerable.

Really? You genuinely think people should not have hot water or a working fridge in 21st century Britain?!

@Changechangychange

well we do....3 mobiles, sky and broadband. and bt sport

everyones situation is different and we will be reducing those as contracts end

Essentially, it will hit the point when enough people simply can't pay.
The government will have to step in with borrowing to cover the shortfall.
We are probably returning to the days of public ownership, as opposed to private profiteering.

@icelolly12

Is it this bad in Europe, Australia, USA or are we facing higher rises than the rest of the world? It is very scary that prices for food, petrol, bills etc just seem to be rising week after week... I dread to think what they'll be by December...

Bad but less bad in Australia and the US, just as bad in Europe.

We both wfh and have a 4 bed detached house with 2 dc. Bulb have just told us our bills will be going from £175 pm to £331 pm. It's insane.

Mines nearly 300. I struggled with 160!

The gov should step in. They should bring I an extra tax / levy to pay for it, which only applies to those making money. E.g. tax on director profits of energy/ oil companies.

well it wont be popular here but i have 2 solar panels and do recommend them if anyone is considering

contrary to what a pp says they work well even with cloud cover, they don't need much to work well. i get hot water from ours, enough for one days use, family of 4,just.

Ours is going from £121 to £186, or could fix for £316!

I'm on maternity and didn't budget for such high rises, feel I'm going to have to return to work earlier than planned

My fixed rate has just more than doubled 🤦‍♀️ too scared to go in variable in case it increases even more. Have turned down thermostat etc in hope we come out in credit. Luckily we can afford the hit but I feel terrible for those who can’t.

I was thinking that Sky, Netflix, etc are going to take a massive hit as people will cancel those in the first instance.