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Originally Posted by jfman
You are deliberately interpreting posts with the narrow scope of suppliers - the last actor in the supply chain - rather than considering the energy sector as a whole.
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This is the actual issue for discussion: allowing the market to deliver revenue & profit from an infrastructure sector at the expense of large parts of the population.
The only good thing that will come out of this is the awareness of the level of greed & exploitation such a system delivers. The commodity traders and other players in the market literally do not care if their actions result in people going hungry and/or cold. It's all about the money. The really sad part is the number of people who will schill for these companies, players, etc. They are either are part of the system in that they directly benefit from these market changes or they are just ill informed at best, or at worse, morons.
Playing the card "
but, but, they have a duty to the shareholders" is just a shallow deflection. Companies that operate in the UK, raise revenue in the UK, employ people in the UK have, at the end of the day, have a duty to the UK. In times of national extremes, they should behave accordingly. Profits should be reinvested in the company: reducing product prices, improving employee wages and investing in infrastructure.