Energy crises

There is no energy's crisis...we are as normal being ripped off....and the British public take it up the bum.

I remember in the aftermath of 9/11 making the argument that the invasion of Iraq was about access to oil. I'll never forgive Blair for siding with the neo-cons. I kept saying then, invest in renewables, get away from fossil fuels because the people who profit are despots, authoritarian regimes and dodgy ex-KGB wannabees like this new Putin bloke. From a geopolitical and security point of view, wasn't it all pretty transparent how dependence on fossil fuels was massively compromising? From an environmental point of view it's been known for fifty years that it's disastrous. We're so far behind where we could be, the world is warming and untold misery been inflicted through conflict. But there we are. I'm sure it's all some woke conspiracy to turn people into filthy vegan cyclists.

Because the main suppliers now have little in the way of competition now so many smaller companies have folded. As a result, despite wholesale prices coming down, they've kept their prices up. Try getting a better deal right now. None of them are budging so their customers are stuck. 

A lot of good points here.

Vote green like me 

A lot of good comments on here as usual.  There certainly isn’t a fuel crisis for SHELL, Just posted record profits again, last year they paid out more in share dividends than they did in tax and investment in renewable energy (remember that, the loophole the Tory government offers the energy companies as a way of offsetting their sickening profits).

RR1972 wrote: dr_martinov wrote: I was going to post this on the "we hate the Conservatives" thread. So yeah, my energy bill Oct-Jan is double last years. OK, price of energy has somehow gone up I suppose with world events and so on, I can understand that, but why does this then translate to the big energy/oil companies having twice the profits? It's the same thing they're selling but now their profit margin has doubled just because it's more expensive? Why? It's hard not to view it as a small number of companies controlling an essential commodity so charge whatever they like. Occasionally they go a bit too far even for their own greedy standards and a Government fines them. They shrug off fines of 8 billion and then carry on as normal. And then that story about British Gas forcing vulnerable "customers" to have pre-paid meters... terrible stuff. breaking into peoples houses and fitting then ffs shocking

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