Electric shock: Spike in U.K. energy prices
push cost of running EVs above gas-powered cars
Washington Times,
by
Ramsey Touchberry
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/31/2022 6:27:35 PM
Charging electric vehicles in Britain soon will be more expensive than filling up gasoline-powered cars thanks to soaring electricity costs—an economic switcheroo that could be a harbinger of shrinking financial benefits for Americans who go green. British energy regulators told electricity consumers to expect to pay 80% more beginning Oct. 1. The national price cap on residential electricity will send the average bill from about $190 per month to an estimated $343 per month, or more than $4,000 per year. The shocking price hike stems from the nation’s limited reserves and Russia’s cutoff of one of the region’s major sources of electricity generation: natural gas.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 8/31/2022 6:33:53 PM (No. 1264725)
The horse and carriage may be making a comeback in the UK. And street lamps illuminated with whale oil.
7 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 8/31/2022 6:37:04 PM (No. 1264728)
Feeling scammed yet, Guv'nor?
8 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
marbles 8/31/2022 6:37:31 PM (No. 1264730)
Exactly how the so called masters of the universe want us. We have 1st rate highly efficient forms of energy and they want us to depend on windmills.
10 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/31/2022 6:38:40 PM (No. 1264731)
Sometimes it sucks to be an early bird. Fifty years from now, electric cars will be in the history books as a failed experiment pushed by a bunch of delusional imbeciles with no scientific skills.
17 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/31/2022 6:47:59 PM (No. 1264735)
Coming to a charging station near you! Don't worry. It's only going to get worse - unless you vote with your head rather the other end.
9 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/31/2022 7:08:04 PM (No. 1264750)
Meanwhile Elon Musk has split his stock so when he starts selling ... ???
FORD, GM, Volks, PAY ATTENTION
We don't want electric golf carts.
4 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
scottj 8/31/2022 7:17:37 PM (No. 1264760)
A lot of people are about to freeze to death this winter because they can't find or afford heating oil and Its all because of these climate change moonbats. Come next spring if anyone even utters the words climate change they will get a Bullet right through the face. Enough with these idiots.
4 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 8/31/2022 7:24:43 PM (No. 1264769)
The WEF folks are angry that the middle class lives well. They are out to FIX that. They want rich folks and the peasants in their hovels. NO middle class.
9 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 8/31/2022 7:29:01 PM (No. 1264773)
What OP said. Aren’t leaders everywhere great?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Anti-DemocRAT 8/31/2022 7:38:16 PM (No. 1264789)
We had decades to build beautiful high capacity, low emmision nuclear plants and greens missed their chance. Better shelve those evs for 20 yrs and start building nukes.
5 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Omen55 8/31/2022 8:26:38 PM (No. 1264842)
Dust off that old bike.
You're gonna need it!
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Anybody with a working mind and who pays attention to reality could have told those Brits that.
2 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Lala 8/31/2022 9:08:49 PM (No. 1264890)
Was up in Amish country this weekend. Lots of horses and buggies. Guess who’s going to be fine when the grid crashes?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/31/2022 9:15:47 PM (No. 1264897)
The UK is gone. They embraced socialism, and now the country has been destroyed.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/31/2022 9:26:21 PM (No. 1264919)
Surprise, Brits!
4 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
planetgeo 8/31/2022 10:36:22 PM (No. 1264955)
You know what will correct all this? The burning and sacking of every government building, and the public hanging of every politician who voted for this insanity and forced slavery of the public to these insane policies.
4 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
bad-hair 9/1/2022 12:15:22 AM (No. 1265017)
Too funny
I honestly thought this would take longer.
2 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
NotaBene 9/1/2022 3:04:28 AM (No. 1265068)
Global Warming is a lie. Electric car batteries lose storage capacity with time, just like an iPad. Replacing the battery costs upwards of $6,000. Except for Tesla, kall other E-cars can ignite spontaneously, just like the Samsung laptops.
2 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
mifla 9/1/2022 3:24:14 AM (No. 1265076)
Bernie Sanders: "Those stupid Brits are doing socialism all wrong. This won't happen here!"
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Talk2 9/1/2022 11:02:32 AM (No. 1265408)
Maybe we now know the reason Biden is trying to kill our natural gas industry. It's pretty hard to supply other countries when our own government is creating shortages in this country.
0 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 9/1/2022 11:29:46 AM (No. 1265454)
Re #18, you are exactly right....except that batteries are more like $10K to $15K.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
JackBurton 9/1/2022 12:07:29 PM (No. 1265506)
I have to things to say.
Ha.
and
Ha.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
JackBurton 9/1/2022 12:07:53 PM (No. 1265507)
Sheesh. 'Two.'
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The peasantry of yore would have revolted long ago. But not us; we demand to freeze in the dark and go hungry, and stop owning cars, and pay through the nose for everything we buy, all because our governments are taking intentional actions to strip us of everything we own. And the best part is that unlike in a medieval serfdom, we also pay for every penny the government has, and then uses against us. How cool is that?