Just wondering how you guys are finding the ever rising cost of energy ?, through the majority of 2022 we found that £50 per month was enough to cover our energy cost for our 1 bedroom flat, now we are up to £40 per week and thats just basic heating and no extravagant use of Cooker, Washing Machine etc etc, in other words we can't cut back our use in any other way. I also wonder whether or not the Government could be doing more other than what they are presently doing, such as we still have 2/3 Coal fired Power Stations on standby for when the National Grid struggle to cope with demand, why on earth do we not utilise these Coal fired Power Stations while we have the current high cost of imported Gas etc etc ?, surely in this day and age its not beyond us to find some kind of filter to filter out most the crap that the burning of Coal produces ?, yes I'm well aware of the need to go greener but the UK alone won't save the planet, Thoughts.
I read our meters yesterday..30 day's at £5 a day for gas.. £2.50 elec..approx + 5% vat..so about £236 for 30 days..minus the 66 a month rebate... my DD was increased to 181 per month. But the next 3 months likely to be colder.
They have signed up for zero emission targets which they say can be reached by 2030. If you notice,they do not really explain how any of their alternative energy projects can be a success providing a stable base load and that is because it is impossible. It's very important to think independently now and plan for off grid survival strategies such as solar for light electricity loads if you can afford it. To keep warm I recommend buying a cheap Chinese 7KW diesel heater that are easily fitted and can keep one room warm all winter very cheaply. They can actually run much cheaper if you can source used cooking or used engine oil. Just need to filter and blend it 70..30 with red diesel. Don't wait for the Government to act or you will end up looking like Jack Nicholson at the end of The Shining.
They're in the UK for gods sake only the super rich are going off grid the rest of us are cattle to be farmed. Stop all this anti alternative energy crap, we all know that it won't fill the gap in time and we all know that nothing is providing the base load we need, but trying to justify oil and gas as the future is just suicidal. Get it, this is act 1, things are tight, and the oil and gas rice went up what you are seeing is what happens when the resource starts running out, act 2, 3, 4 and 5 will be much worse, you can't get enough hydrocarbons out of the ground to supply the growing population ok that's it that's the basic fact, so like t or not we need every way possible to generate power. I am sick of saying this, I want and like our technological world, I don't want to live in a world without electricity or with only part time electricity, we should have been building nuclear for the last 40 years, I was personally involved in the nuclear industry 40 years ago but it's too late we need to build everything, renewables, nuclear and yes coal an gas but the coal and gas element is going to kill us, kill the planet, but we don't have a freakin choice now, we just have to hope that we can build energy systems quick enough to retain a basic standard of living and it's going to cost much much more than it did in the past, all of this has been obvious for decades but hard luck you all have to deal with the reality now.
I am certainly not anti alternative energy as you wrongly surmise but extremely pro alternative energy. The British tax payer has been decieved and lied to for many years and are now being made to suffer because of it. Many older and more vulnerable citizens will die of hyperthermia related issues this winter because of the lies they were told about sustainable so called clean natural resources that could take up the slack. The Nuclear solution that was obviously the only reliable sustainable base load solution and was known about many years ago and yet they ignored the real science. And now look. Too bloody late now isn't it? Don't get mad with me for simply telling the hard truth and offering a few helpful tips . These may provide alternative ideas and emergency measures to help people right now keep warm that they may have not previously considered. I am certainly not rich by any real measure. Does that mean,I have to rely on our corrupt and incompetent Government to keep my Children warm and to avoid my dear Grandmother dying slowly of hyperthermia? Not on my watch. Independence is the key and it's irresponsible and very wrong to suggest that working our way to personal off grid solutions is not an option for us ordinary folk but only the "super rich". What type of Socialist folly is that? Misinformation.
Let's be honest. Things are grim in the UK these days with the increasing cost of living Customers withdraw record amount of savings in May: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66051711 "Billpayers dipped into bank and savings accounts at a record level in May, prompting warnings from charities about the ongoing high cost of living. There was £4.6bn more withdrawn than paid into bank and building society accounts, the Bank of England said."
