Energy prices

[Dunners]

Not really. But I'm with Vrigin and it hasn't done my boardin' any harm.

[Currywurst and Chips]

That's far more important than "customer service"

[Smendrick Feaselberg]

Whatever you do, do not lock yourself into a fixed tariff right now.

Out of interest, why? Because costs will be coming down at some point?

Edit: just seen the reason courtesy of Martin Lewis.

[Long slender neck]

is it only the variable tarrifs protected by the cap?

[Max B Gold]

Did youse know that in just 6 hours the world's deserts receive more energy from the sun than humans consume in a year!

[Long slender neck]

We need to get rid of these deserts then if they're using all our energy.

[Currywurst and Chips]

About time we nationalised Mauritania

[Max B Gold]

There are some parts of the Atacama Desert that have never recorded rainfall.

[StillSpike]

There are some parts of the Atacama Desert that have never recorded rainfall.

Now that's just plain lazy.

[tuffers#1]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58824121

Energy bills could rise by hundreds of pounds

[Stowaway]

This is going to screw so many people. My wife is one of those forrens who can’t stand the cold, and working from home all last winter meant she had the light and heating on virtually all day. We’re with Octopus, and currently paying £81 per month. When these price hikes hit our bills are going to be huge.

[tuffers#1]

Iceland say its energy bill will increase by £20 million over the next year
so expect those frozen goods to go up in price .

Northwood paper manufactures
the uks biggest supplier of paper in recycled bog rolls etc
have said there energy bills have increased by 550 %
over the last year .

Both say the Govt cant keep saying to Buisnesses

suck it up , youve blah blah for years on cheap forrins labour .

Hey George

[Clive Evans]

How long before people say screw Global warming and demand the re-opening of the coal mines?

[Dunners]

Shale gas is where it's at.

[RedDwarf 1881]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58824121

Energy bills could rise by hundreds of pounds

Replace the word "could' with 'will '

[faldO]

Seems like the shortage of fuel over the past few weeks was more to do with the switchover from E5 to E10 fuel as it was to do with Brexit and HGV driver shortages.

Garages had already been running down their tanks from the beginning of September, leaving tanks only 75% full. When a handful of BP stations among the 1000s of petrol stations nationwide reported forecourt closures the BBC decided to report this as a nationwide fuel shortage all over the 6 o'clock news, and the rest is history.

Brian Madderson, the chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association, said the data showed that the fuel crisis had been an “unintended consequence” of the Government’s switch to greener petrol.

“For weeks we had been emptying our tanks of E5, the old fuel, as fast as we could to get ready for E10. We had all run our petrol stocks down,” Mr Madderson said.

“So when the panic buying started, many of our members ran out pretty quickly. Then the shortage of HGV drivers meant we couldn’t get supplies of petrol or diesel quickly enough.

“I don’t blame the Government particularly but the E10 switchover clearly had an unintended consequence: we couldn’t cope with the surge in demand.”

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Seems like the shortage of fuel over the past few weeks was more to do with the switchover from E5 to E10 fuel as it was to do with Brexit and HGV driver shortages.

Garages had already been running down their tanks from the beginning of September, leaving tanks only 75% full. When a handful of BP stations among the 1000s of petrol stations nationwide reported forecourt closures the BBC decided to report this as a nationwide fuel shortage all over the 6 o'clock news, and the rest is history.

Brian Madderson, the chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association, said the data showed that the fuel crisis had been an “unintended consequence” of the Government’s switch to greener petrol.

“For weeks we had been emptying our tanks of E5, the old fuel, as fast as we could to get ready for E10. We had all run our petrol stocks down,” Mr Madderson said.

“So when the panic buying started, many of our members ran out pretty quickly. Then the shortage of HGV drivers meant we couldn’t get supplies of petrol or diesel quickly enough.

“I don’t blame the Government particularly but the E10 switchover clearly had an unintended consequence: we couldn’t cope with the surge in demand.”

Yep, lots of ‘‘twagheads were posting this on my social media.

[faldO]

Seems like the shortage of fuel over the past few weeks was more to do with the switchover from E5 to E10 fuel as it was to do with Brexit and HGV driver shortages.

Garages had already been running down their tanks from the beginning of September, leaving tanks only 75% full. When a handful of BP stations among the 1000s of petrol stations nationwide reported forecourt closures the BBC decided to report this as a nationwide fuel shortage all over the 6 o'clock news, and the rest is history.

Brian Madderson, the chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association, said the data showed that the fuel crisis had been an “unintended consequence” of the Government’s switch to greener petrol.

“For weeks we had been emptying our tanks of E5, the old fuel, as fast as we could to get ready for E10. We had all run our petrol stocks down,” Mr Madderson said.

“So when the panic buying started, many of our members ran out pretty quickly. Then the shortage of HGV drivers meant we couldn’t get supplies of petrol or diesel quickly enough.

“I don’t blame the Government particularly but the E10 switchover clearly had an unintended consequence: we couldn’t cope with the surge in demand.”

Yep, lots of ‘‘twagheads were posting this on my social media.

Standard procedure - don’t like the message, shoot the messenger

[tuffers#1]

Seems like the shortage of fuel over the past few weeks was more to do with the switchover from E5 to E10 fuel as it was to do with Brexit and HGV driver shortages.

Garages had already been running down their tanks from the beginning of September, leaving tanks only 75% full. When a handful of BP stations among the 1000s of petrol stations nationwide reported forecourt closures the BBC decided to report this as a nationwide fuel shortage all over the 6 o'clock news, and the rest is history.

Brian Madderson, the chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association, said the data showed that the fuel crisis had been an “unintended consequence” of the Government’s switch to greener petrol.

“For weeks we had been emptying our tanks of E5, the old fuel, as fast as we could to get ready for E10. We had all run our petrol stocks down,” Mr Madderson said.

“So when the panic buying started, many of our members ran out pretty quickly. Then the shortage of HGV drivers meant we couldn’t get supplies of petrol or diesel quickly enough.

“I don’t blame the Government particularly but the E10 switchover clearly had an unintended consequence: we couldn’t cope with the surge in demand.”

Yep, lots of ‘‘twagheads were posting this on my social media.

Standard procedure - don’t like the message, shoot the messenger

in this case
who was the messenger you or Bodge ?

[Dunners]

By the way, if anyone wants to see what a real energy crisis looks like, then check out what's happening in China.

[Long slender neck]

Cant you just summarise it for us?

[Constanza]

They're all knackered

[Max B Gold]

They're all knackered

Totally screwed.

One of them (Octopus?) was caught by the regulator offloading their higher use customers to Scotch Gas etc because they are making a loss on their accountd. They have been fired back to Octopus.

Its the complete failure of an artificial market created to feather the nest of the Tories pals in the City.

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

The pals in the City are ok though, right?

[Constanza]

They're all knackered

Totally screwed.

One of them (Octopus?) was caught by the regulator offloading their higher use customers to Scotch Gas etc because they are making a loss on their accountd. They have been fired back to Octopus.

Its the complete failure of an artificial market created to feather the nest of the Tories pals in the City.

I was actually summarising Dunners post for Prestige Worldwide, explaining the lack of energy in China, but I also agree with your post.