Fisherman
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Marie I am heating my home to 17c right now and my gas bill last month was £297. We normally set it to 19c, if I had left it to this it could have been £350 . And that with the government subsidy. Without that my bill would have been about £500. And add to that the leccy at £100. It’s not sustainable for most people. Inc this poor auld pensioner.Who are they not sustainable for?
I honestly don't see a slow down or a reversal in the price of energy, but on the other hand I haven't noticed any particularly heavy cutting back in spending on heating, or in general spending for a certain section of the population. Not yet anyway (I include some of my friends in that statement). Other friends who are not so well off are sitting in their freezing cold houses muffled up to the eyeballs with all kinds extra clothing etc. They're not complaining though, just getting on with it like most people do.
The energy costs certainly won't be sustainable for some businesses, many of which have already gone bust, or will be going bust this year. And it's pretty dire for those households on low incomes, but I doubt whether it will be noticed all that much by some households, despite all the hoo-ha.
This is still a wealthy country and there's a lot of money still being earned in certain sectors, and we have a lot of comfortably off pensioners (a fair few use this forum). Cafes and coffee shops are booming like nobody's business and the odd trip I have made lately to local large retail parks (Yuk! Hate shopping) you were very hard pushed to find a parking spot. But there's a lot of high streets in some parts of the country starting to look very gappy, like a mouthful of teeth but with more and more teeth going missing. Especially up here in the North East, but then we've always suffered here more than most in an economic downturn![]()