Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
They have 'limited' the price cap and provided £150 to lower income homes, so that isn't nothing but I take your point.

The reality is until the market stabilises there probably is little they can do. Unfortunately wars do cause things like this.

Like I said, I'm open to the idea of a windfall tax, I can just recognise the issue comes with pros and cons, especially when considering things in the long term.

Short term decisions aren't always the best - look at Germanys short termism on nuclear. The result has been high prices and funding a despots war.

Thankfully UK gas wholesale prices are the lowest since september, which is better news.
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/uk-natural-gas
Limited the price cap Oh, come on. For a lot of people the energy prices may as well be £1,000 p/m for as good as it does them.

£150 isn't nothing, you're right. It's a slap in the face and, what's that term you keep using... A short term solution.

I don't know why you're just throwing all short term solutions together as if they somehow correspond.

As we stand today there are millions of people unable to afford to live on a basic level whilst oil companies are showing unheard of profits.

I'm not sure how the outcome of taxing them more/a windfall tax could be worse than the British public literally starving and freezing - which they are doing.

Maybe they could be starving and freezing and sat uncomfortably.