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13 hours ago, Wade1865 said:

Electricity -- 85 bucks, before; now, 150 and climbing.

Gasoline -- 40 bucks, before; at most, 85; now, I dunno -- hardly drive anymore.

Everyone in the UK has just been told that the average electric/gas bill per household, will be £300 a month from October and £550 a month from April. 

Everything else seems absolutely irrelevant at the minute. 

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On 8/23/2022 at 9:37 PM, dog-days said:

In the UK, the banks are always more important than mere human beings trying to have a life. 

Today I paid £3.65 to sit in a café and drink one coffee. 

I'm really dumb.

(In the recent past, it was £1.99. So I was still dumb, just not to the same extreme). 

My coffee order has gone from £2.40 to £2.85 since January. I have actually managed to cut down though and use the coffee making facilities at work. Their coffee, their electric bill, cheaper day for me.

25 minutes ago, BigFatCoward said:

Everyone in the UK has just been told that the average electric/gas bill per household, will be £300 a month from October and £550 a month from April. 

Everything else seems absolutely irrelevant at the minute. 

Thats if you can even find a provider. I've just moved to a new flat and nobody will take me as a new customer because of the high energy prices. The fuck.

 

Eta: I might be able to ring them to sort this out but fuck, this is annoying and not what you want when you're working full time and trying to move and get everything sorted.

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Shrimp.

I forgot the exact size. But it's the pack I get at whole foods and is good for two-to-three dinners if I cook it all with pasta and some sauce, maybe throw some veggies in there too. Used to $8.99, now it's $13.99

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On 8/25/2022 at 5:10 AM, James Arryn said:

What we’re noticing is less prices going up, but rather sizes going down with prices staying the same. 

I used  to feel a bit guilty about eating a 2 quart tub of ice cream, now that the tubs are 1.5 quart, not so much.

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2 hours ago, BigFatCoward said:

Everyone in the UK has just been told that the average electric/gas bill per household, will be £300 a month from October and £550 a month from April. 

Everything else seems absolutely irrelevant at the minute. 

And all the time, the people who own the oil fields and run the refineries just keep getting richer and richer and richer.

Ya know, this stuff hasn't all of a sudden gotten more expensive to produce. There's just less of it being produced. Having said that, I'm absolutely certain the CEOs of Shell and BP et al are in absolutely no hurry to see the end of the war in Ukraine.

If I was a high ranking oil executive, I'd be conducting a comprehensive review of my family's personal security arrangements.

 

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1 minute ago, Spockydog said:

 

If I was a high ranking oil executive, I'd be conducting a comprehensive review of my family's personal security arrangements.

 

They are probably hoping everyone is too hungry to have the energy to revolt. 

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Labour to end energy consumer 'rip-off' and renationalise network
 

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Labour will announce plans on Thursday to seize back control of Britain’s energy network from private shareholders in an effort to fight climate change and end fuel poverty.

Jeremy Corbyn and the shadow business secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey, are expected to say that heat and electricity should be a human right for all and nationalisation of the network is key to decarbonising the economy.

Under Labour’s plan, companies that control the UK’s £62bn energy infrastructure – the pipes and cables that supply homes and businesses with gas and electricity – would be taken back into state control soon after a Labour election win.

This would include National Grid, and the network arms of Scottish Power and SSE, with the existing investors in those companies to be reimbursed with government bonds at a price determined by parliament.

Nationalisation of the energy networks forms a central part of Labour’s plans to address climate change, with the party arguing that the profits generated from the infrastructure should be invested in the green economy rather than given to shareholders in the form of dividends.

Long-Bailey will say energy customers have been “ripped off” by the privatisation of the UK’s energy grid, with shareholders paid £13bn in dividends over the past five years.

 

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*RECORD SCRATCH*

How do you do, fellow plebs. Sir Keir here. You're probably wondering how I got here. Well, I told a pack of lies and pretended to be a socialist. LOL. Anyway, forget all that nonsense above. Low electricity bills are so 2017. The world has changed, get over it. Even so, I know you're probably hoping I'm going to help you all by re-nationalizing the National Grid and providing not for profit energy to every British household. Like I promised. But you know what? I've changed my mind.  I've now decided that you will all be much better off if I just introduce more regulations to do .... um, well, something. *clears throat* Anyway, we'll flesh out the detail after I've lost to Liz Gussett in two years time. Anyway, bye. I'm off down the battle cruiser to consume copious amounts of hard liquor. RIP my liver. LOLzzzzzz....... Stay hungry, fools!

 

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35 minutes ago, Spockydog said:

Jeremy Corbyn and the shadow business secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey, are expected to say that heat and electricity should be a human right for all and nationalisation of the network is key to decarbonising the economy.

Where does Jeremy Corbyn come in? I thought he was still suspended from the Labour party?

Edit: :blushing:

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Just now, A wilding said:

Where does Jeremy Corbyn come in? I thought he was still suspended from the Labour party?

I was taking the piss.

This was a manifesto pledge from the Before Times. Starmer promised to carry it forward, but like every other promise he made to get elected, it has fallen by the wayside.

 

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6 hours ago, BigFatCoward said:

Everyone in the UK has just been told that the average electric/gas bill per household, will be £300 a month from October and £550 a month from April. 

Everything else seems absolutely irrelevant at the minute. 

The World economy is so going to slow down by this winter. People spending +500 a month on utilities, will guaranteed cut back on other discretionary spending.

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11 hours ago, Fez said:

Shrimp.

I forgot the exact size. But it's the pack I get at whole foods and is good for two-to-three dinners if I cook it all with pasta and some sauce, maybe throw some veggies in there too. Used to $8.99, now it's $13.99

Hmmmm...I did notice the 3lb bag of frozen chicken breast at the grocery went from $8.99 to $14.99...I sometimes would grab that when we wanted more chicken but had enough that we didn't need to buy the 10lb Sam's Club bag...I haven't been the one doing the Sam's shopping lately, so I don't know how much that 10lb bag has gone up...

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14 hours ago, DireWolfSpirit said:

The World economy is so going to slow down by this winter. People spending +500 a month on utilities, will guaranteed cut back on other discretionary spending.

A LOT of people are going to have nothing to cut back on.

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On 8/26/2022 at 11:07 AM, BigFatCoward said:

They are probably hoping everyone is too hungry to have the energy to revolt. 

BigFatCoward -- yep; and freezing cold weather would have the same effect. On the other hand, it this was happening during the California summer, while wearing black clothing and PPE ... you might have a riot or two.

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  • 2 weeks later...

What used to cost 20% of a median income now costs 35%.

"It currently takes 35.51% of median income to make the monthly principal and interest payment on the median home with a 30-year mortgage and 20% down. That’s up marginally from the prior 35-year high back in June, when the payment-to-income ratio reached 35.49%, according to Andy Walden, vice president of enterprise research and strategy at Black Knight."

eta: The example-

A year ago, a buyer who put 20% down on a median priced $359,900 home and financed the rest with a mortgage rate of 2.86% -- which was the average at the time -- had a monthly payment of $1,192.

Today, a homeowner buying the median priced home, which is now $403,800, with a mortgage at the current average of 6.02%, would pay $1,941 a month in principal and interest. That's $749 more every month.

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On 8/30/2022 at 8:38 PM, Jaxom 1974 said:

Potato chips.  Seriously.  $5+ for at most a 14oz bag...?  Oof.

Its been awhile since I’ve bought canned tuna and it seems the cans have shrunk a bit.  
 

@Jaxom 1974
$5.00 for such a small reward sounds so American some how. 

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