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Old 14-08-2022, 11:44   #707
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Re: Sir Keir’s Kerfuffle

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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
As I pointed out, it's all of £35/customer/year. Even with the windfall tax of around £180/customer/year, there is still a huge gap.
The UK consumes more than double the amount of gas it produces, so more than half the gas comes from outside of the UK, and outside of UK tax jurisdiction. How can they be described as "greedy" when they don't set the price?
We still seem to be managing to export most of our gas to continental Europe at the moment….. not for storage but for sale. Which means when we need to buy gas it will be when it is at its most expensive pushing prices even further. If only we had a way to store it. Oh wait that was mothballed
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