Exactly this.
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PhillipM
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Both sound like forms of ADD, I know I have to kick my own ass to do stuff because of the same thing, and it sounds similar to how I was/am when it's a bad spell sometimes. Nagging and badgering at someone when they're like that just makes it far worse and more stress and then they're even less likely to do anything even if they were intending to on their own before that.
I didn't get diagnosed till later on in life and it's the same for a lot of people - by that time you've put your own coping mechanisms in place to get around it. But the stubborness is a big part of it. Someone tells me to do something I intended or was planning on doing myself anyway and I'd turn around and not do it because you'd just ripped any interest I had in doing it for myself away.
The US news does not cover European news in any significant way .
But things look ominous in reports about Germany and Poland and such places.
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A clever comment I think, read elsewhere:
"All they need do is delink the gas price from nuclear and renewables. At the moment the wholesale price of electricity is all based on gas generated electric.
Why should the tax payer support extra profits for generators where it costs no more to generate than it did prior to the gas price rise".
"All they need do is delink the gas price from nuclear and renewables. At the moment the wholesale price of electricity is all based on gas generated electric.
Why should the tax payer support extra profits for generators where it costs no more to generate than it did prior to the gas price rise".
100% agree.
They are going to do this in Europe.
I hope to God Liz Truss does this and not just borrow borrow borrow!
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Next there'll be an official admission then that we've artificially been paying over the odds for X years.
Looking forward to the big rebate!
It will never happen , as it is not in their interest to drop the prices , as when the price doubles / triples , so does the vat , green levies etc .
And to offer people handouts is just handing us back our own money , to pay tax with again and hand direct to the big boys ,but also put us further into national debt doing so .
I won’t go on in fear of getting the thread locked , but this morning just ordered 500 litres as we are down to a couple of days . Was £506 for that . We burn approx 1300 to 1500 a year for heating and hot water old cottage . So we are now , like most laying the equivalent of one persons “average” monthly wage for oil .
On the whole I still think oil is cheaper to run than mains gas. Obviously you need the space for a tank and suitable access, the boilers tend to last a lost longer.
For us the key is having a decent size tank and filling up when the prices are low even if you don't need it.
Even at todays prices I know our heating is cheaper to run than our neighbours gas and their house is smaller.
For us the key is having a decent size tank and filling up when the prices are low even if you don't need it.
Even at todays prices I know our heating is cheaper to run than our neighbours gas and their house is smaller.
And it is still far far cheaper than electric - God help people with heat pumps!
I just ordered 1000L - will last 25 weeks on just the AGA. I will use the woodburner for the other end of the house.
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When they buy power from the grid it is sold at different prices depending on the source, that how they can claim to only buy from renewable sources, in reality it's all one grid.
It bugs me that vendors are allowed to advertise and claim that if you're buying your electric from them - that you'll be getting all "Green" produced electricity.
It's nonsense.
It's like me running a bathful of cold mains water, then pouring in a cupful of Spring Water.
I'd be seen as a mental case if I then dipped a cup into the bath, and then tried to present the contents as unequivocally the Spring Water!
What's saddens me - is that so many of the public are so galactically dense that they accept such drivel without question.
If I was on a renewables only tariff I would be presenting a solid argument that the current energy crisis should absolutely not be affecting my charges as I'm confident the supply of wind and sun hasn't got more expensive.
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Then send them a worn out "tanner oner" and hope they don't notice. Bit like tower bridge.
I know , it’s the same as when you at offered a green policy …. Let’s say in “theory” if we could supply 20 million homes with nothing but pure “green” electric , and they reach the limit of 20 million , do they stop selling green policies or just keep taking the money …
Ah but you can't just decouple theelectricity price from gas, since gas is used to generate electricity when everything else is short (yes renewables and mostly nuclear). Unless of course you subsidise the gas price?
Several gas powerstations have gone bust in the UK. Including Baglan which was very advanced. They expected them to sit around doing nothing until they were needed. Caused havoc for companies on the energy park there. They had to bring in generators for the sewage pumping system.
Why? If the supplier is buying wholesale green electricity, and selling you or I the same amount then it's green.
Simple enough I think. But then there are those that use "offsetting" and not quite green - ie wood pellet steam generated electricity, when we all know the pellets come from North or South America. The issue lies with the REGO system itself, and that was devised 15 years ago..
