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Gas prices wont come down for a decade?

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oreste · 31/12/2022 13:42

According to the papers today. Others are commenting that the Ukraine effect has already been reversed on the wholesale market but is not going to translate into reductions for us as we no longer have EU price controls. Is this realistic?

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JugglingJanuary · 05/01/2023 12:14

Greenfairydust · 01/01/2023 13:52

We are being ripped off. Pure and simple.

Other countries have managed to keep prices lower than the UK. Ukraine is being blamed for everything by some part of the media. The reality is that we have greedy utility companies who are making record profits while people struggle and a government who is unwilling to act.

Easy solution: vote in a Labour government & re-nationalised water, gas, electricity and the transport system.

@Greenfairydust

Easy solution: vote in a Labour government & re-nationalised water, gas, electricity and the transport system

I take it you're quite young?

...and also don't care in the least about protecting women?

Chersfrozenface · 07/01/2023 11:34

Anyway, the Labour party isn't proposing to renationalise energy. The most it says it will do is set up a publicly funded energy entity called Great British Energy.

Article here from the Guardian (hardly a right wing paper)
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2023/jan/05/labour-great-british-energy-plan-gbe

Proudboomer · 08/01/2023 13:38

oreste · 05/01/2023 12:09

I'm glad I don't have a smart meter because it would send my anxiety through the roof. I am lowering usage drastically but I do not wish to become a slave to numbers on an electronic display. Sometimes, people can get overzealous with all of it. As long as you do your best in reducing consumption, that should be good enough. If it is not, then you will not be alone and the problem is the system, not your consumption.

You can have smart meters and not use the home display unit if you don’t want to as the smart meter works independently of the home display. Without the display you can just log into your online account it you want to see your usage and cost and leave the home display at the back of a draw somewhere.

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