energy prices- are we being taken for a ride?

[Mobeytrova]

So this article says "Only 36% of “a typical bill” comprises the actual cost of energy, the rest being tax, delivery, billing, customer services, environmental schemes and profit. So even if the price of gas doubles, triples, goes wild, only just over a third of your bill should double, triple or go wild, the other costs being static, give or take inflation" This calculation doesn't seem to justify the threefold or so increase...

AIBU, is the war being used as an excuse to make yet more profit from the already struggling people of this country?

Link to article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/15/britains-consumer-champions-fiery-martin-lewis-richard-murphy-cost-of-living-crisis

"Only 36% of “a typical bill” comprises the actual cost of energy, the rest being tax, delivery, billing, customer services, environmental schemes and profit. So even if the price of gas doubles, triples, goes wild, only just over a third of your bill should double, triple or go wild, the other costs being static, give or take inflation"

It makes sense that delivery, billing and customer services remain static, this is what standing charge should cover (and no more imo). Don't know about the others, it does make more sense to me that they are linked to usage. If it was all a fixed cost wouldn't poorer people with lower usage end up paying more and high energy users less?

this country doesn't have an energy crisis it has a greed crisis.

I like this framing...

I thought this thread might like this guy. He was on R4 Saturday Live last weekend, now Times Radio. He could use a few more Twitter followers and retweets @GarysEconomics see twitter.com/TimesRadio/status/1507006183881670664