On 24/05/2021 19:39, Tim+ wrote:
Robin wrote:
On 23/05/2021 18:30, Andrew wrote:
On 23/05/2021 10:46, Jethro_uk wrote:
If there was any honesty in the free market mantra the Tories use to shot
on us, we should be able to buy our electricity from Spain. Or indeed
anywhere.

I'm still waiting to be able to change my water company - as promised by
their privatisation. When's that due ?

That was never offered with privatisation. You had the option to go onto
metered water and pay for what you actually use. You can always go off
grid, with your own well and private sewage treatment works, as some
rural folks have to.

There cannot be an option to switch suppliers without a National water
grid, which will never happen.

A national water grid has been looked at many times.

I believe its always been scuppered by pumping costs. Water companies are
already one of the biggest consumers of electricity in the country.


+ environmental impact (where need to use rivers)

+ politics(objections from Welsh, Scots, etc - not to mention bombs
under aqueducts)

And AFAIK nobody has seriously proposed a /potable/ water grid so it
ain't a national market like electricity and gas, just pretty much the
current regional ones


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