Gas & Electric Prices Are We being Conned By Boris and The Suppliers??

[The Samaritan]

I've been hearing on the radio and TV for the last few days that France has "capped rises to 5%"
but ours is about 20% at least I think.

Are we being taken for a ride?

The so-called loan of 200 pounds whether you want it or not will be another burden

So, how come France can cap at 5% and our lot at a lot higher rate

It would be interesting to know how other major EU countries compare to our fuel rates.

I was looking for a link and just found this. Our Boris and Co need to put the taxpayers first for once rather thann their rich friends!!!

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/edf-warns-outlook-citing-price-caps-lower-nuclear-2022-03-14/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/edf-warns-outlook-citing-price-caps-lower-nuclear-2022-03-14/

 

[gas112]

Costing france £1.8 billion to prop up edf so the public will be paying for it one way or another

 

[denso13]

Are we being taken for a ride?

"We"? You claim you are in Brazil?

 

[The Samaritan]

Costing france £1.8 billion to prop up edf so the public will be paying for it one way or another

Why is Boris & Co not doing that as these rises are massively impacting those on low wages and those that have many loans for cars, tv's, washing machines, holidays etc etc.

Many elderly that have worked hard and retired won their own homes are the hardest hit - the suppliers make enough profits and we should go down frances route.

Boris does put the big boys first there is no doubt about that.

 

[wobs]

He puts headlines first.

 

[The Samaritan]

Those soon will be people being chased by bailiffs as they can't afford to pay their bills

 

[Mottie]

"We"? You claim you are in Brazil?

Didn't that Angle, who just got booted off, claim to be in the UK but slipped up when he mentioned how much he was paying for gas and diesel in Euro's? There must be a lot of it about.

 

[motorbiking]

Different country, different weather, different approach to open energy market, different subsidies and different production strategy. Apart from that we have every right to expect the same costs. Bad Boris

edit: did Angle get the boot again? - jeez I can't keep up.

 

[The Samaritan]

Different country, different weather, different approach to open energy market, different subsidies and different production strategy.
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Very helpful insight

 

[THFC]

There will be a prize for the first poster who identifies his new username! Not that it will be too difficult mind

 

[The Samaritan]

There will be a prize for the first poster who identifies his new username! Not that it will be too difficult mind

initiate a thread on it like the one yesterday

 

[motorbiking]

Very helpful insight

Its like saying why doesn't the UK have as much geothermal energy as Iceland, it must be Bojo's fault.

 

[The Samaritan]

Its like saying why doesn't the UK have as much geothermal energy as Iceland, it must be Bojo's fault.

Hardly. A fact, France has forced EDF to cap charges at 5% why not Boris and his cronies do that??

I dont do benefits but was there not a lot of people crying about "family credit" and Boris and co defending the cuts for weeks and even on the same day wheeling out the usual cronies to defend Boris then made a massive U turn

Boris can cap the prices a lot lower and where there is a will there is a way. Sadly, Boris is only there for the very rich cronies.

 

[Notch7]

Different country, different weather, different approach to open energy market, different subsidies and different production strategy. Apart from that we have every right to expect the same costs. Bad Boris

decades of neo liberal short termism is what drives political decisions in the UK (across both parties) -the mantra privatise the profits and socialise the losses does have meaning here.

31 energy companies have gone bust -so the open energy market has completely failed

flogging off public infrastructure to foreign operators is not the best long term strategy for security of our energy markets

 

[Notch7]

Boris can cap the prices a lot lower and where there is a will there is a way

it would be very very expensive to do that

and anyway theres no incentive to do so -its not a money spinner for Tories or their mates