Looks very much like the plan is to saddle households with two decades of energy debt

and to be fair, that's absolutely fine - because it's our fault that we want to be warm in winter and windfall taxes on energy profits is just pinko leftie nonsense.

Posted By: norwaay on September 6th 2022 at 09:27:30

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Looks very much like the plan is to saddle households with two decades of energy debt (General Chat) - norwaay, Sep 6, 09:27:30
- i'm using all my energy now before the prices go up. ha ha, in your faces suckers. (General Chat) - Tombs, Sep 6, 12:18:18
- Erm, I'm a bit out of the loop at the moment (General Chat) - Timmy_Goat, Sep 6, 11:26:25
  - Well (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 11:29:46
    - This was costed at circa £40bn? (General Chat) - Timmy_Goat, Sep 6, 12:09:51
      - The cost of this will depend on how long prices stay high for I guess (General Chat) - jamesward, Sep 6, 12:14:30
      - Hitting the likes of BP and Shell not really magic (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 12:12:12
- Looks like an 18 month freeze (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 11:10:12
  - And you still get 400 quid off your bills this winter (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 11:48:52
  - Fixed until Dec 24 at 15.1p a year ago, I am Jose mourinho (n/m) (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Sep 6, 11:41:21
- You’re all mugs, all you need is a bit of tin foil behind your radiator and you’ll be fine (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Sep 6, 10:50:32
- No plans for a heating oil cap so I hear (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 10:50:15
  - Was it one of your sources (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, Sep 6, 10:58:45
  - Truss out. (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, Sep 6, 10:53:39
    - Kwateng tbf (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 11:04:19
      - £500 for 500 litres at the moment. Gruesome. (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, Sep 6, 11:28:59
        
        How many winter months would 500 litres heat for? (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 11:31:11
        
        Probably easier to average it out across the year as we always seem to order at different (General Chat) - norwaay, Sep 6, 11:44:25
        
        ... which is way lower usage than the replies to that tweet. (General Chat) - norwaay, Sep 6, 11:48:31
        
        Am shocked at the amount of energy some use (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 11:51:33
  - Fuck em (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Sep 6, 10:52:09
- France has just renewed their interest free loans to home owners for solar and wind power (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Sep 6, 10:47:38
  - Didn't the French president just go to Algeria begging for oil and gas (n/m) (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, Sep 6, 10:58:13
- Shut up shut up shut up (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Sep 6, 10:30:53
  - u ok hun? (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, Sep 6, 10:47:40
  - lol (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Sep 6, 10:32:01
- I think a better solution would be (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Sep 6, 10:29:59
  - Not that practical for the poor inner city dwellers. (n/m) (General Chat) - The Gaffer, Sep 6, 11:42:48
  - they aren't either/or options (General Chat) - CWC, Sep 6, 11:34:40
  - Takes to long (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Sep 6, 10:51:21
    - that's what was said about nuclear expansion 10 years ago. It'd be online by now. (n/m) (General Chat) - CWC, Sep 6, 11:36:36
- A dangerous approach for what could be a relatively short term issue (General Chat) - JoeyDeacon, Sep 6, 09:50:19
  - What do you suggest we do instead (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 10:04:06
    - Stop stupid sanctions on Russia that will solve it (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, Sep 6, 10:16:57
      - Do you genuinely think it would? (General Chat) - CWC, Sep 6, 11:29:26
      - You are in favour of supporting war crimes then ??? (n/m) (General Chat) - loz, Sep 6, 10:22:55
        
        I'm in favour of having less bills and Norway not freezing in the winter (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, Sep 6, 10:32:36
        
        A contrarain is just a jerk with a noble cause. In this case you have no noble cause. (n/m) (General Chat) - The Gaffer, Sep 6, 11:55:41
    - Sometimes we have to just suck it up (General Chat) - JoeyDeacon, Sep 6, 10:13:00
      - We should suck up crashing the economy? (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 10:20:45
        
        It will recover (General Chat) - JoeyDeacon, Sep 6, 10:22:31
        
        It would but lots of devastation (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 10:30:46
      - Just sucking it up is not an option (General Chat) - jamesward, Sep 6, 10:15:52
  - ‘Eventually’ (General Chat) - CWC, Sep 6, 10:01:12
- Blub (n/m) (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, Sep 6, 09:49:49
- “We need to bring down energy bills” (General Chat) - Duck, Sep 6, 09:47:57
- Has she announced then what her plans are, not seen anything yet (n/m) (General Chat) - earlydoors, Sep 6, 09:47:09
  - All briefed through the press so far (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 10:04:39
- The opposition need to start referring to this as (General Chat) - fleckmatic, Sep 6, 09:46:42
- Those on a long term fix must be a bit miffed (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 09:34:01
  - Many not even offering them now (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 10:40:04
    - Actually I’m talking the ones who fixed at the start of the year (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 10:44:40
  - No one in their right mind would surely fix at the recent levels (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Sep 6, 10:28:27
- She won't last long if so. (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Sep 6, 09:31:14
  - I mean... everyone can see that, right? (General Chat) - norwaay, Sep 6, 09:32:33
    - Must be floating policy ideas to judge reaction (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Sep 6, 09:55:18
      - This idea certainly floats.... (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Sep 6, 10:58:57
      - Which they regularly do (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 10:48:50
    - I hope they can,and I believe most do. (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Sep 6, 09:33:21

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