Christmas lights? 18 October 2022 at 9:40AM in Energy 26 replies 4.3K views

sienew

ChaunceyGardiner said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Oh my word.  How the other half live!

Indeed. I was told that there was no gas shortage, that I was promoting asceticism, etc. They just weren’t having it.

To be fair, that is also the official government position. They do not expect shortages in the UK. The national grid are only talking about blackouts in a worst case scenario.

ChaunceyGardiner

sienew said:

be fair, that is also the official government position. They do not expect shortages in the UK. The national grid are only talking about blackouts in a worst case scenario.

There's a bit of a shortage, surely? Or there was until the past week or so. Isn't that why gas prices were so high, and we imported some from Australia?

QrizB

ChaunceyGardiner said:

sienew said:
be fair, that is also the official government position. They do not expect shortages in the UK. The national grid are only talking about blackouts in a worst case scenario.

There's a bit of a shortage, surely? Or there was until the past week or so. Isn't that why gas prices were so high, and we imported some from Australia?

It all depends what you mean by "shortage".

On a glabal scale, yes, there is less gas available to purchase than there was. This means prices rise and some buyers are priced out of the market. These buyers typically haven't been in the UK or Europe; it's the less wealthy nations who have been unable to secure supplies.

In the UK, because we're able to pay 400p a therm (roughly 8-10x what gas was selling for a couple of years ago), there's no shortage.

baguettes

If you can afford it then from a personal opinion seeing your Christmas lights would fill me with festive cheer.

As for the moral worry. Worth putting a collection box in front of your house to raise money for a foodbank.

ChristieJayne

If it brings your community joy then go for it. But, I do worry about there being shortages

SAC2334

ChristieJayne said:

If it brings your community joy then go for it. But, I do worry about there being shortages

Reports in the press about Russia plotting to sabotage the Langeled 5500mile gas pipe line from Norway to UK would make blackouts a certainty if it happened as UK only carry a few days gas stocks .

Think I`d better start buying more candles ..just in case the scaremongering comes true .