Energy affordability crisis

[Resolvenjack]

I filled up this morning at the local village garage, first time I have purchased fuel there in at least ten years. 2p per litre cheaper than Tesco.

My local garage is a lot cheaper than Tesco. £1.61 for unleaded and £1.76 for diesel. Still astronomical mind

Which garage is that then NJ? Tesco Llansamlet was 185.9 for diesel yesterday although the Texaco on Samlet rd was 183.5 yesterday

 

[Neath_Jack]

My local garage is a lot cheaper than Tesco. £1.61 for unleaded and £1.76 for diesel. Still astronomical mind

Which garage is that then NJ? Tesco Llansamlet was 185.9 for diesel yesterday although the Texaco on Samlet rd was 183.5 yesterday

The Mile End garage in the Melyn mate. Been cheaper than Tesco for a number of weeks now.

 

[Neath_Jack]

https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1558015564068577285?s=21&t=AuzCCHf0hAL1tP0-cgFrqQ

 

[Professor]

Which garage is that then NJ? Tesco Llansamlet was 185.9 for diesel yesterday although the Texaco on Samlet rd was 183.5 yesterday

The Mile End garage in the Melyn mate. Been cheaper than Tesco for a number of weeks now.

Lucky up here-the Gordale Garden Centre has petrol at 159.9 and diesel at 176.9.

Shell, supermarkets etc. are at 173 for unleaded

 

[Pegojack]

Fuel prices have dropped around here by 10% in the last week. Cheapest I can buy duesel locally is 1.64€ a litre, but then the government subsidy of 20c a litre, applied rigorously by the way, is taken off that, so 1.44€ a litre. At today's exchange rate, £1.22/l.
My latest monthly leccy bill for 32 days up to Aug 8 was 90.15€.
The aircon was in pretty heavy use in the evenings. Our domestic hot water is heated by electric and we have the pool pump running two hours a day all week. Everything else is electric too apart from bottled gas for the hob. My supplier keeps saying on the bill that my contract runs until 2025 but I don't know how much scope he has to raise prices if at all. So far, I'm pleasantly surprised. The Spanish and Portuguese governments did a deal with the EU recently to cap the wholesale price of gas, from which most electricity here is generated. I can't claim to understand the intricacies of the market here, but I'm pretty sure we're not getting screwed over like you are.

 

[Malaga]

Pego, read this earlier...

The Big Rip-Off – How Can Spanish Electricity Providers Justify Charging Customers Unprecedented High Bills When They Are Making 24% More Profit Than Last Year with Execs Receiving Record Salaries/Bonuses?:
– The three main companies focused on electricity, Iberdrola, Endesa and Naturgy, closed the first half of the year, marked by the rise in gas prices, with a joint profit of 3,548 million euros, according to the income statements that have been published in recent weeks. It is 24% more in the same period of 2021

 

[Pegojack]

Pego, read this earlier...

The Big Rip-Off – How Can Spanish Electricity Providers Justify Charging Customers Unprecedented High Bills When They Are Making 24% More Profit Than Last Year with Execs Receiving Record Salaries/Bonuses?:
– The three main companies focused on electricity, Iberdrola, Endesa and Naturgy, closed the first half of the year, marked by the rise in gas prices, with a joint profit of 3,548 million euros, according to the income statements that have been published in recent weeks. It is 24% more in the same period of 2021

I hadn't seen that. At least the government is imposing a windfall tax on them all. A real one, not a joking one like in the UK.

 

[MajorR]

BBC article coveting the cost differential between the supermarkets and Indy’s.

Tesco down our way has been a hood 10p per litre more expensive than the cheapest Indy, but today they seemed to have dropped their prices and are now competitive. I won’t use them if I can help It for anything.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62494404.amp

 

[Uxy]

Cheapest unleaded anywhere I've seen is Drefach 155.9 amazing the price difference!

Drove past earlier. Queue was rather substantial. Wish they'd tell the other OfW garages!!

 

[A4Jack]

Cheapest unleaded anywhere I've seen is Drefach 155.9 amazing the price difference!

Drove past earlier. Queue was rather substantial. Wish they'd tell the other OfW garages!!

I know mate. It's obscene. I go there and ten to nine and it's quiet then but otherwise it's a no go

 

[Uxy]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/13/keir-starmer-demands-ban-on-raising-energy-prices?CMP=share_btn_tw

There you go Clasey

 

[Muteswan]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62539480

 

[Neath_Jack]

I see Kier has spoken from beneath his rock. Probably shamed into saying something due to Gordon Brown having his say on the crisis.

 

[Niigata Jack]

I see Kier has spoken from beneath his rock. Probably shamed into saying something due to Gordon Brown having his say on the crisis.

He's absolutely useless, there was so much hope out there when he became Labours leader, but he's been nothing other than a limp lettuce. :x

 

[Pegojack]

I see Kier has spoken from beneath his rock. Probably shamed into saying something due to Gordon Brown having his say on the crisis.

He's absolutely useless, there was so much hope out there when he became Labours leader, but he's been nothing other than a limp lettuce. :x

That's right, don't attack the people responsible and the government sitting on their hands, attack the people offering solutions.