The trouble is once the government starts giving bailouts to citizens like this the demands are never going to stop.
I’d prefer the root cause of the issue was fixed, rather than a government sticking plaster just shoved over it.
I would also like to bathe in the irony of the amount of people who think this is a good thing that also crap on about people being on benefits, aka “when it benefits me it’s fine, but when I doesn’t by Christ I’ll scream about it”
Have they just tried giving up Netflix?
No. Energy companies just need to reduce profit expectations.
Ultimately these companies are trading a commodity that everyone on Earth needs to live, but the owners expect it to be a constant source of increasing profit, the big oil companies have made a £50 billion quarterly profit.
Water companies, oil companies, companies trading resources people desperately need to live either need regulating away from unmanageable prices or nationalising.
A for profit business is always going to prioritise ways they can profit, even if people are freezing in their own homes.
Unfortunately this government is full of weirdo’s who think that if the market decides to let people freeze to death, then people freezing to death is just and fair.
Won’t taxes go up?
I’d prefer if they just fucking nationalised all the essential to life services and went balls to the wall investing in clean energy and clean energy storage solutions
You think the government can give a grand or so to every household every month?
Things are fucked, but if you want more fucked this is the way to go.
Downvotes incoming…
The problem with that is you are essentially just passing more money to the energy gougers and normalising their insane greed.
The actual fix we need to is properly cap the prices, limit profits and even to renationalise. I remember the odd brown-out in the 70’s but at least the damn stuff was affordable then.
By the end of this year we’ll have thousands more freeze/starve to death and millions see their savings wiped out.
A profit cap with a legal requirement to reduce the cost to the consumer during high profit areas is an option.
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The trouble is once the government starts giving bailouts to citizens like this the demands are never going to stop.
I’d prefer the root cause of the issue was fixed, rather than a government sticking plaster just shoved over it.
I would also like to bathe in the irony of the amount of people who think this is a good thing that also crap on about people being on benefits, aka “when it benefits me it’s fine, but when I doesn’t by Christ I’ll scream about it”
Have they just tried giving up Netflix?
No. Energy companies just need to reduce profit expectations.
Ultimately these companies are trading a commodity that everyone on Earth needs to live, but the owners expect it to be a constant source of increasing profit, the big oil companies have made a £50 billion quarterly profit.
Water companies, oil companies, companies trading resources people desperately need to live either need regulating away from unmanageable prices or nationalising.
A for profit business is always going to prioritise ways they can profit, even if people are freezing in their own homes.
Unfortunately this government is full of weirdo’s who think that if the market decides to let people freeze to death, then people freezing to death is just and fair.
Won’t taxes go up?
I’d prefer if they just fucking nationalised all the essential to life services and went balls to the wall investing in clean energy and clean energy storage solutions
You think the government can give a grand or so to every household every month?
Things are fucked, but if you want more fucked this is the way to go.
Downvotes incoming…
The problem with that is you are essentially just passing more money to the energy gougers and normalising their insane greed.
The actual fix we need to is properly cap the prices, limit profits and even to renationalise. I remember the odd brown-out in the 70’s but at least the damn stuff was affordable then.
By the end of this year we’ll have thousands more freeze/starve to death and millions see their savings wiped out.
A profit cap with a legal requirement to reduce the cost to the consumer during high profit areas is an option.