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Originally Posted by ianch99
What on earth are you wittering on about? The French government have intervened, because they can, to cap rising energy bills by forcing EDF to sell electricity generated by its fleet of nuclear reactors to rival home suppliers at well below the current record high market prices. It is not a difficult concept to grasp.
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You will be if it is possible. That is the way the free market works.
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The gas and gas generated electricity bills will still increase. The French government is still going to compensate EDF, so it will still cost the French one way or the other.
The sub-topic was about British Gas and whether it should've been privatised in the first place. Seeing as 50% of the gas we use comes from outside the UK, prices would go up whatever way you look at it.
France and Spain are more reliant on nuclear power and less dependent on gas generated electricity than the UK.