Energy Prices

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• Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced plans to cap average household energy bills at £2,500 a year from October
• The support will last for two years, she announces in the Commons, saying "this is the moment to be bold"
• A typical household's gas and electricity bill had been due to rise from £1,971 to £3,549 in October
• Businesses are also getting a support package for six months which will provide "equivalent support"
• After the six-month period, further support will be targeted at "vulnerable industries", Truss says
• The government is also lifting the ban on fracking - which involves extracting gas and oil from shale rock

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-62828637

[dandywarhol]

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In other words energy prices have gone up £500 a year.Use you more pay more,use less you pay less.

[Jimmy the Jock]

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In other words energy prices have gone up £500 a year.Use you more pay more,use less you pay less.

If your bills are capped you can fill your boots once you get to £2500 . Heaters on whilst in work , tumble dryer going 24/7 ..

[Canton Kev]

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A short term solution that kicks the bigger problem down the road to the next PM. A big win win for energy companies all paid for by us taxpayers. Don’t suppose anyone knows who Truss’ previous employers are….?

No doubt she will act as if she’s the hero who solved the crisis whilst ignoring bills are now over double what they were last year for many people and she’s saddled the country with a £180Bn bill.

[Former Labour leader]

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A short term solution that kicks the bigger problem down the road to the next PM. A big win win for energy companies all paid for by us taxpayers. Don’t suppose anyone knows who Truss’ previous employers are….?

No doubt she will act as if she’s the hero who solved the crisis whilst ignoring bills are now over double what they were last year for many people and she’s saddled the country with a £180Bn bill.

Agree we've been fecked over big time by Truss and the ERG. Note green levy scrapped. Full steam ahead for climate change then.

[Former Labour leader]

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If your bills are capped you can fill your boots once you get to £2500 . Heaters on whilst in work , tumble dryer going 24/7 ..

You're definitely taking the piss today Jock. 😀

[JamesWales]

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Great, something needed to be done, and it's been done.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Great, something needed to be done, and it's been done.

We have been done , clearly

Your continual support of the Tories is fecking embarrassing, wind your next in

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: Energy Prices

A short term solution that kicks the bigger problem down the road to the next PM. A big win win for energy companies all paid for by us taxpayers. Don’t suppose anyone knows who Truss’ previous employers are….?

No doubt she will act as if she’s the hero who solved the crisis whilst ignoring bills are now over double what they were last year for many people and she’s saddled the country with a £180Bn bill.

Absobloodyloutely

[JamesWales]

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We have been done , clearly

Your continual support of the Tories is fecking embarrassing, wind your next in

Sludge, on the contrary. This provides stability, which is urgently needed.

You just liked being able to moan. If Labour had done this, your reaction would have been totally different, whereas mine would have been the same.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Sludge, on the contrary. This provides stability, which is urgently needed.

You just liked being able to moan. If Labour had done this, your reaction would have been totally different, whereas mine would have been the same.

Bullshit

[chris lee]

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If your bills are capped you can fill your boots once you get to £2500 . Heaters on whilst in work , tumble dryer going 24/7 ..

Our understanding of energy prices in this country is bizarre isn't it ?

The amount of people who genuinely believe they pay a fixed amount for their energy is very concerning, as if it is like a mobile phone contract.

Even this price cap makes it hard to know exactly where we stand, instead of telling me the household average of the Uk, can ofgem just say they have capped prices at how ever many pence per KWH.

[Ninja]

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She'll be hated even more than Thatcher this one.

[2b2bdoo]

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Seems good news to me.

[WJ99mobile]

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So the rich, in their bigger houses get a cap, where the poor have to wait until they hit £2500 a year.

Have I read it wrong