Yes but they just need to do something short term sureky?

It won’t bankrupt the country if it’s an interim measure. You can’t just generate all your energy from other sources overnight.

I completely agree we need to switch to other sources and be more efficient and we need to fast track that. But imagine the abuse/outcry there would be if they just let bills keep rising (because they will and people can’t afford it snd businesses will go to the wall) and people start to die because they can’t afford to heat their house. Including no doubt from some on here slagging off the expected proposal.

I was reading the other day of a small pub whose electricity bill is going up from
£14k a year to an estimated £65k. There will be no such businesses left unless they take temporary measures to stop the rises.

Posted By: Jim on September 6th 2022 at 16:56:26

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I *think* that this price freeze malarkey (General Chat) - Old Git, Sep 6, 12:35:16
- Send me your banking details OG,I'll send it to you direct.👍 (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Sep 6, 13:04:05
  - Good man (General Chat) - Old Git, Sep 6, 13:40:17
- think again (General Chat) - CWC, Sep 6, 12:47:53
  - Ha ha (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Sep 6, 12:53:39
- I'll be honest, it feels to me like the whole world has gone mad (General Chat) - Under soil heating, Sep 6, 12:42:43
  - Utterly bonkers (General Chat) - Old Git, Sep 6, 12:55:11
    - BP and Shell currently pay 40% tax on profits in the UK (General Chat) - Timmy_Goat, Sep 6, 14:14:48
      - If it was that easy, why haven't we been doing that for years? (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Sep 6, 14:21:28
        
        Erm. There was opposition to North sea energy (General Chat) - Timmy_Goat, Sep 6, 19:44:02
  - People will still be cutting back usage (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 12:51:14
    - Yes, but not as much as they would (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Sep 6, 13:30:39
      - Could increase the cap to 20K (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 13:54:44
      - Absolutely, this plan (if it’s what she had in mind) (General Chat) - Old Git, Sep 6, 13:42:07
        
        I’ll still be cutting back as much as I would (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 13:58:03
        
        ^ lives in a shoebox (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Sep 6, 13:59:48
        
        January might be hard (General Chat) - SCC 28, Sep 6, 14:28:13
        
        Can I please have one more lump of coal (n/m) (General Chat) - Ken Breadstick, Sep 6, 16:33:02
        
        … (General Chat) - Under soil heating, Sep 6, 14:07:55
        
        Not a hand out though, as we all pay for it long term (General Chat) - jamesward, Sep 6, 13:49:05
        
        Sooner or later, one way or the other, whatever is done (General Chat) - paulg, Sep 6, 14:05:54
        
        Yes, but there are ways of ensuring that those who can least afford it (General Chat) - jamesward, Sep 6, 14:07:16
        
        100% (General Chat) - Under soil heating, Sep 6, 14:10:07
        
        Yes but they just need to do something short term sureky? (General Chat) - Jim, Sep 6, 16:56:26
        
        suppliers can hardly means test customers (General Chat) - CWC, Sep 6, 15:01:50
        
        Give it as a handout and mega-tax the rich to recover the costs (General Chat) - jamesward, Sep 6, 15:04:34
  - yeah its mental (General Chat) - CWC, Sep 6, 12:50:13
    - i've stocked up on hosepipes just in case (General Chat) - Tombs, Sep 6, 12:55:13
      - good plan (General Chat) - CWC, Sep 6, 12:57:58
        
        we had some fuckers steal a full tank of our heating oil a while back (General Chat) - Tombs, Sep 6, 13:06:04
- Surely it’s just a freeze on the price per KWh though? So those of us (General Chat) - Jim, Sep 6, 12:39:07

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