Flyingfemme wrote:VRB_20kt wrote:The only winners will be those that can hang on until most of the competition have been killed off and then reap bumper profits through having large volumes of customers paying the maximum charge.
The ones who are being "gifted" customers from companies that did go bust are in a pretty good position. My rate is doubling, to Shell's "standard" rate, and I am unable to switch anywhere else.
However many of the remaining companies don't want the domestic customers, see inability to find a better deal than Shell standard, because the cap means they lose money on every one, adding to their own loses.
The real problem is we believe that bought in gas and coal doesn't count for "climate change" so it's fine to import but we can't produce our own. Hence Polish coal for steel production rather than our own and Mr Putin's gas rather than North Sea or fracked gas.
Unfortunately the green lobby / Government haven't realised that windmills don't work when there's no wind , solar doesn't work at night, Mr Putin is marginally less reliable than the DVLA and we are incapable of building anything major, let alone a nuclear power station and the people contracted to do it for us, EDF, make Putin look utterly reliable while threatening to plunge the Channel Islands into darkness unless their fishermen can continue to pillage their waters.