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If it's produced locally eg wind power, hydro-electric, nuclear then it doesn't go into the same big pot that gas and oil do. And its not impacted by overseas countries.

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Wait . . so you're telling me that my Gas and Electric bills are not raised and lowered due to the 'global' prices, but instead it's if the wind blows or the sun shines?

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This can feed into the price. Wholesale prices are cheaper when it's windy or sunny, I use Octopus Agile, which links to the wholesale price by the half-hour (priced a day ahead), and you can see it drop to single pennies on sunny/windy days or as high as 50p when it isn't.

But the price always goes up between 4pm-7pm as there isn't enough renewable energy to sustain the demand.

So your tariff will be informed by renewables but still will vary more because of the global prices.

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Net-zero has already done that.

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The electricity price is pegged to the gas price, regardless.

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It seems I was completely mistaken regarding Net Zero in the UK, it's nothing at all to do with Carbon Emissions, and simply the end target of which all (or most of) the UK will end up with . . absolutely nothing at all.

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Didn't we sell our sovereignty aka oil fields to the highest bidder thus improving Norways sovereign wealth fund, could be wrong, just seems like something we'd do

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Exactly, Seph. Reform advocate that we should use our own fossil fuels rather than import them.

What so many people don’t understand is that we will still need fossil fuels for some time to come until alternative sources of energy can guarantee security of supply.

Reform UK is talking about lot of sense, which is why Starmer and his thick bunch are going out of their way to demonise them.

Well, the indications are that most thinking people are beginning to see through the mud-slinging hyperbole. It might even start to dawn on some regular contributors on this forum, but it still hasn’t quite sunk in yet! :beer:

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Irony, thy name is OLD BOY…

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Thing is you havent got a good track record at picking them OB. First it was St Theresa May, then Bonking Boris, then Loopy Liz, then slimy Sunak - all you said were the Second Coming.... Look where they've got us.

Think you and others need to do thinking before backing another self obsessed nutter.

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As that's impossible, only the hard of thinking will buy into that policy.

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It’s not impossible … just extremely difficult and expensive and therefore highly improbable.

Parliament is sovereign, it can pass and Act unilaterally altering the nature of drilling and extraction licences in the UK sector of the North Sea. It can nationalise all operations if it chooses. In time of war the government could probably do so directly, under emergency requisition, without Parliamentary consent at all.

But, as you say, only the hard of thinking would believe any government in peacetime would take on such a monumentally expensive and destabilising project.

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The sad fact is, they were the best available at the time.

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Or….

They were the worst available at the time, and you supported them…

(and you continue your track record)

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https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/21...IKLsZf6QrzWow#

https://www.itv.com/news/central/202...d-of-christmas