To be held on remand for nearly a year is an injustice too. Innocent before proven guilty doesn’t mean much when you can get locked up for that long before being put before a jury. (View Post)

And gas consumption is concentrated in high wealth/income households in a way that electricity isn’t.* *with the exception of EV owners. But we like them too. (View Post)

Yes, different businesses have different ways to extract as much cash as possible. At the moment our consumer energy market does this by exploiting the universal need for a grid connection and chargi… (View Post)

That’s a fair criticism. Could be partly solved by fully variable tariffs for people with low energy use (which they are likely on anyway). But as far as I’m concerned the cost is already dumped on t… (View Post)

Never really understood this argument. All businesses have standing costs to some degree, but these costs are usually rolled into per unit prices. There isn’t an entrance charge to pubs or supermarke… (View Post)