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I will have to put my heating on , I cannot stand the cold, So I will have to pay,
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Got an email from Bulb the other day saying they needed to increase my DD again as I was "at risk of building up debit soon".
This was clearly ridiculous, I was almost £500 in credit, and my last two monthly bills were < £200. I dropped their support an email pointing this out and instructing them to leave the DD alone. I also asked about just paying the actual bill each month. I was slightly shocked to get a reply at just after midnight ... :shocked: They basically offered to refund all my credit, and change my DD to take the actual billed usage each month. I accepted. |
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No notification as yet from Scottish Power about the new tariffs or DD levels.
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We got our first payment credited on our meter this morning of £66.
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He said that many mines will have flooded by now, so I can't help but wonder if it was a mistake to have closed them in the first place. The uneconomical cost of mining our own coal will be dwarfed by the now extortionate cost of energy & any loss of gas to industry. |
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This present crisis will not be severe or long-lasting enough to justify what it would have cost to keep those mines ticking over for the past 30-40 years. |
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The miners' strikes of 72 and 74 showed that there was too much militant power they could muster. So the mines finally closed in 85, as it had been far cheaper to import coal from Poland and other places.
And yes, it did hold onto stocks we might really need at some point in the future. Sand-bed furnaces and CO2 scrubbers were not ready, but they are now. |
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Octopus are giving out free electric blankets from today to the first 10000.
Thermals and a hot water bottle is probably better though. https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/fre...ilable-4006120 |
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Germany and the EU are already having to reduce energy consumption. ---------- Post added at 16:26 ---------- Previous post was at 16:11 ---------- Quote:
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The only absolute certainties are death, taxes, and SWMBO giving me earache about my whisky drinking… ;)
Everything is scenario based, and if you’re prudent (and able to), cater for likelyhood X impact weighting; if, as a country, we don’t plan for the "worst case scenario" in the energy scenario, we are being failed. |
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