Energy bills to hit £5,000 a year by 2020

1echidna

ad9898 wrote: »

Make sure you buy somewhere with a garden to grow things.

Won't be time to spend hours on the computer we will all be out tending our cabbages?

Cleaver

purch wrote: »

There won't be any work.

Buses and Trains will be too expensive to operate.

Everyone will walk through the ruins of what was once a great Nation.

I feel a tingle in my fingers as I think this thread has the initial potential of that brilliant stockpiling thread. Let's keep these coming people.

I'll start:

There's no point having a meaningful relationshp with anyone now. In 5 years time it's thought that we'll all just be mating with robots. It's a sad state of affairs of what was a once great nation.

mardatha

We'll need to riot on the streets to keep warm.

amcluesent

Massive nuclear expansion with fast-breeder reactors as we're past peak yellow-cake, with minimal 'elf'n'safety nonsense which causes the skyrocketing costs, is the answer.

mardatha

Yes well as long as you have it down there. We don't want it. Sell them your back garden !

drc

So, energy bills at £5,000, water at £500 and council tax probably at some ludicrous amount like £10,000. We'll just be working (if there are any jobs left) to pay bills. Freedom is slavery...

mewbie_2

I like this, it's the Monty Python sketch - too poor to eat cold tea in hole in road - but in reverse. So I say - 5,000 pah, that won't even buy you a cup of tea. I reckon, when we're older, you'll need fifty thousand just for a tea bag. And a mortgage to run the kettle for two minutes.

1echidna

amcluesent wrote: »

Massive nuclear expansion with fast-breeder reactors as we're past peak yellow-cake, with minimal 'elf'n'safety nonsense which causes the skyrocketing costs, is the answer.

Yes I have seen oil production plant in middle east built for 10% of what they would cost here. Who cares about a little oil around (oil and sand makes a good golf course), H2S, smoke and a little non strict adherence to all the codes. Operators more on their toes and not earning 40k plus and expecting the plant to be so easy and foolproof to run that a monkey could do it. Sorry I guess I am a bigot too but the cost factor between a plant being safe or very, very safe can easily be a couple of orders of magnitude.

PasturesNew

Cleaver wrote: »

There's no point having a meaningful relationshp with anyone now. In 5 years time it's thought that we'll all just be mating with robots.

Great. Where do I order one?

mewbie_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

Great. Where do I order one?

I am an importer of Japanese creations with real human hair. Can be delivered within about an hour. Fairly early model so farts and belches intermittently. Answers to name of lewbie.