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where there is an economic return from green infrastructure investing, companies are already doing it and you can buy their shares or bonds. government bonds are a way for government to borrow, they fund the interest from taxes, not investment returns. what green bonds ask for is uneconomical...

people ignore that side of things, that companies profit on the back of years of investment. when state owned that investment is not available, should be spent on front line services. profits from around the world bring in billions of taxes too. we can look at countries around the world that try...

and my point is across europe there's various flavours of mixed market economy, private, state control or ownership and we're all in the same boat. no use harping back to 1979 and thinking this is UK unique situation, and we may find benefits of more diversified energy supply. state energy...

you should move on and understand this crisis streatches across europe and the world. read whats happening elsewhere with restrictions, rationing, prices rising.

the cap is a limit to how much bills can rise, assessed every 6 mth, to protect consumers from sudden changes to energy prices. its gone up twice and likely again because energy prices have surged since last autumn and not come down. without it prices would have gone up 4-5x rather than 2x so far.

that wont make gas or electricity any cheaper.

Germany are continuing the shut down of their remaining nuclear too, 11% of their electric supply disappears by end of the year.

encourage people to come off direct debit, the companies have been milking consumers for a long time with forward payment. asking for prices to be cut when electricity prices have significantly risen is just a forlorn hope and wont be achieved. campaign would be better to simply tell people...