Energy Security

I have been banging on about this for years we are over reliant on importing our energy from some despicable regimes and if they want they could hold us to ransom the oil crisis of the seventies should have been the warning.

Both Tory and Labour governments have ignored the obvious and it is time they took this seriously. If the solution is to go green then fine but the key thing is we should be immune from Putin or the Saudi's.

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Nationalisation

I am not convinced that taking energy back into public ownership would solve the current problems.

Th real issue here is where we get our energy from and for that the government should take responsibility as we have failed to replace nuclear and coal fire to the point where experts are now saying that if electric cars take off in a big way we don't have enough power.

So the government needs to stop sitting on the fence some of the decisions will not please the green or anti nuclear mob but get on with it.

I can see the need for state aid for building power stations but the government could reclaim the costs from the energy companies over decades.

Edited by Badger11 (23 Sep 2021 10.04am)

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I have never known how this work .
The gas comes down the same pipe line that I think is owned and maintained by British Gas .
The other company's , give cheaper gas as they are normally a small group of people in an office with a phone line . They don't have to pay for maintaining , fixing gas leaks or a labour force . If they did I think your gas prices would be a lot higher .

Despite British Gas having issues during the pandemic, they now seem to be sorting themselves out. My boiler has eventually been serviced (after nearly two years) and while the engineer was here he checked another issue without a grumble.

But, I was confident in the knowledge that they would respond quickly in the event of a breakdown.

I've stuck with them on a fixed rate tariff which works for me. In my reckoning they are a secure company and, as Fatherken says, they have responsibility for maintaining the infrastructure. I really can't be having with switching to a provider that I've never heard of for the sake of saving a few bob.

It's the same with banking. Who'd want to trust their finances with a bank named after a bird?

Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

When the old monopoly was split up, the infrastructure bit became Transco, and Transco is now part of National Grid - nothing to do with British Gas.

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