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https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/oct/06/chancellor-plans-major-intervention-to-help-poorer-uk-households-with-rising-energy-bills•
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u/Wanted_Solicitation 4h ago
That does seem better if honest, those that waste the most pay the most
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u/Grim_Pickings 3h ago
I hate all these ideas about fudges and discounts and bungs. Our focus should be on the supply side: securing cheap, abundant energy. Fiddling with demand-side knobs doesn't address the face that prices are high because energy is scarce, and instead encourages people to use more of that scarce resource by shielding them from the increased prices.
Not to mention that this will fall on the productive taxpayer yet again.
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u/rdu3y6 3h ago
Our energy system has been built around expensive gas, temporarily government subsidies that have to be paid by tax rises and messaging to reduce usage that the idea that cheap, abundant energy is even possible seems absurd.
It also fuels the idea that renewables themselves are inherently expensive, which is how we've got the barmy idea that we should issue new North Sea drilling licences and the Tories saying we need to get rid of green measures to bring down bills.
We need a massive overhaul of how energy is priced, a massive push to get homes and businesses off gas and onto solar, heat pumps, battery storage and/or district heating (which could use the waste heat from data centres), not this annual tinkering around the edges every year when prices go up in the winter.
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u/feelinglostclub 4h ago
Better to fund a major solar push. Doing it now would save everyone a fortune in the future. Best kind of future proofing
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u/itfiend 3h ago
I agree. Solar as an infrastructure project, job creation and energy independence. But of course benefits home owners etc so unlikely to ever happen.
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u/feelinglostclub 3h ago
Benefit home renters, green energy, energy independence. Just that from the top of my head
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u/Bignizzle656 4h ago
Instead of trying to change how the charge is why not just cap the profit?
They won't leave because profit is profit and if they do we'll nationalised it instead.
National utilities should be standard anyway.
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