Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) Energy price rise.

I'm pretty sure the Local Authorities hence the Government will have details by Council Tax band of the current growing payment defaulters as a bench mark.

I guess there is never an easy answer. The current one seems not that focused to me. I don't want to live in a country where people use food banks & can't afford basic heating. I don't see this fixing that.

I paid £1.58 yesterday for the same

Just paid the equivalent of 1.48 GBP for a litre of 95 here, back in 2000 we were half the price of UK for petrol , Diesel still is but this year inflation will run rampant in NZ.

Its no better over the ditch waikiore

I agree, it's a sad state of affairs. Mind you none of this is new, remember the decades of low state pension and regular annual headlines of pensioners dying from hyperthermia. Unfortunately, you see too many instances of the basic cost of living having to encompass the new necessities of life eg monthly phone contracts, wide screen TV's, the latest pedigree 'dog' status symbol, plus increased drug use and so on......plus a myriad of changes to domestic life eg having food delivered etc rather than cooking it, that pushes the basic cost of living envelope forever upwards.

There is no easy fix, as higher taxation generally result in a lower tax take as the wealthy employ mechanisms to avoid it or simply just leave as France found when they introduced a higher tax rate that many wealthy Parisians moved to London.

New Zealand has definitely been through a massive housing price boom, I was looking at buying a property down there and wished I had done so in the early '00's when £ was worth NZ$3.4 at one point and the house prices a faction of the prices they are today. I spent Xmas and New Year for many years between NZ and OZ in the late 90's and 00's and one of the great gestures in NZ I remember at Xmas as the everyone seemed to be on the move for Xmas the fuel companies would reduce the petrol prices usually around Xmas eve.

Yes the current situation of profits generated by power utilities alongside the severe increases feels a bit painful.
I do not support over meddling in business or have a problem with profit or taxation but the sharp inflection will sting some who can least afford it.

Agreed re the petrol, £1.57 for premium juice last week and with 100L tank it gets your attention. Trying to work out where to fit the D cells into the ML at the moment.

Read this. The problem is where we choose to source our energy it the fact when we self generate, we cannot store it. The Government has no viable energy policy because it is more focussed on the Green debate. 90% green solutions end up billions over budget and years too late.Same in Germany shut down nuclear diminish coal and buy from Russia except............


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-energy-reserves-face-soaring-bills.html

John
It was the Esso garage opposite Duxford. Needed some fuel as on fumes. I have always used 97/99 in +8 and 102 a few times in Germany. Have records going back 12 years. It was £1.45 back in 2012, £1.25 2016/17, £1.20 in 2020 and 66p in North Carolina in 2018!