"RedOnRed" wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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RedOnRed wrote:
Bureaucracy behind the installs aside, i'm curious about whether people
think fuel is increasing in price due to the increase of us using less
of it.

It's gone up because all energy prices have increased due to wars, natural
disasters and the fact they're getting more expensive to extract.

I might be wrong but since when has the production and price of North Sea
gas and our domestic electricity been affected by overseas conflicts and
natural disaters?

Historically, due to a captive market and no gas export facilities,
the natural gas price was effectively *lower* in the UK than in world
markets right up until the point the first pipeline was built to
continental Europe. From that point (October 1998) the lower
production costs in the UK and the wider market opportunities
available in Europe meant the gas was usually exported like mad to
make huge profits regardless of any future UK requirements.

It took about 7 years of relentless exporting to get in the sorry
state the UK is in right now, with a sensible energy policy we could
still have had some sensible reserves left. Given that a large
percentage of electricity generation is gas fired, the **** will be
hitting the (stationary) fan sometime soon.

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/POSTpn230.pdf

.......is amusing reading for those well prepared :-)






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