JoeCrow

I assume you must be wearing glasses similar to those used by the famous Zaphod Beeblebrox, you know the ones that go completely opaque if you see something that contradicts your beliefs!😀

Much the same here, we can get vacination for Pneumonia and Shingles at 70 though and a booster for the Pneumonia around 5 years later, Covid and Flu yearly. I didn't need the Shingles this year but had all the rest including RSV which I'd never heard of. My father had Shingles in his early 60s and suffered vicious pain from it till the day he died, I didn't want any of that!

Oh come off it, gas supply is also centralised and prior to the invasion of the Ukraine Germany was almost entirely dependent on cheap gas from Russia, how risky was that? Germany's gas supply these days is mostly liquid gas shipped over from the US and is considered to be too expensive and needs to be replaced with green energy asap. BTW don't try and tell me how stupid it was to close down all Germany's nuclear power stations a few years back, on that I would agree with you.😄

This thread reminds me that a lot of people where I live are not too happy about having to get rid of their gas cookers! In the last couple of years Munich has become the road works capital of the world as part of a massive and ongoing project to plumb in a district heating system. Seems my apartment complex is due to begin retrofitting the new heat source next month, once up and working we have been told the gas will be cut off, end of story. In my case we have always cooked with electric but many of my neighbors cook with gas and are not at all happy and our lovely and expensive living room gas fire with fake logs will have had it!☹️Such is progress!

Isn't that pretty much the model used by the UK water supply companies, i.e. the product is sold nationally at a fixed price and the supplying companies use the income to maintain and improve the infrastructure and pay dividends to the shareholders out of the profits, I wonder how well that is working? Do you really expect an oil company to invest in the exploration and exploitation of an offshore oil field if they are only able to sell the product to the government at a much lower than the market price? I believe that is the primary reason why there has been almost no development in the Venezuela oil industry for years despite the known massive reserves and high market prices.

I would also suggest that the high almost identical price for electricity both in the UK and here in Germany is also in part down to the quasi competition that has been foisted on us. I fail to see any value add by companies that try to sell me a "good deal" on electricity that is supplied down the same wires and from the same generating source as everyone else, if they can get a wholesale price why can't I???😡

Yes but there has not been hardly any transit for the last 6 weeks and the 300 million barrels from the Rosebank field is only less than 15 days worth of normal transit through the Straights of Hormuz, literally a drop in the ocean!😄 Your solutions don't add up, your doom and gloom scenario is exactly where reliance on fossil fuels will get you.

I wouldn't mind betting there is more than that in tankers waiting for safe passage through the straights of Hormuz

Oh dear, you are still not considering the consequences, on a global scale you are right to say the UK is only, these days, a very minor contributor to climate change but the same pressures apply to all the developed countries in the world and if the burning of fossil fuels is not reduced then you won't need the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields as large parts of the UK including London and some of the best farming land will be underwater. I doubt the national grid will survive that so if you are lucky enough to live on the top of a hill you will be getting your energy from a windmill anyway.🫣

I don't/didn't allude to any better future for the UK, I merely pointed out that looking to the past will not bring it about. Regarding the past and the massive de-industrialization of the UK since WW2 is much more about those better paid jobs going to places where they don't cost so much. Having said that I don't believe things were so much better back in the days when Britain's energy supply was completely local i.e. coal, or indeed in Thatchers time when they dumped coal for North Sea oil and gas. The remaining reserves in the North Sea tiny and expensive to recover, basically not worth the candle, much better to utilise the land based reserves in the Middle East and Venezuela and it is no surprise to me that Trump is taken steps to install more west friendly governments in those locations.😬

True but at the cost of serious climate change and most likely an unsustainable over population. Are you so blind that you can only look to the past as the way to a better future?😠

Does it really matter where the gas comes from? It's all the same price whether gas comes from your own country or from elsewhere, same with the oil. Brent crude isn't cheaper despite currently not coming from a war zone!

Would be good if it just showed new posts of the day or x-hours to a not logged in user, not sure how it was done on the old forum but I could definitely see a list of the the latest posts in each category and click on the them to read and only had to login if I needed/wanted to reply! Also works that way on other forums, though some may unfocus or otherwise limit visibility of everything. Clearly if not logged in it can't know what has been read.

Much appreciate the "What's New" link but unlike other forums it only works if I'm logged in. On the other hand from the screen that appears on clicking "What's New" when not logged in, if I click on the "Existing User....." (the light green highlighted button, not the one at the top of the page) a login screen appears that my password manager auto fills in🙂 whereas the login screen that appears when I click on the same from the home page does not trigger my password manager either automatically or manually, I have to type in my credentials from the keyboard. ☹️ Not sure if that is a bug with the forum or my PW manager?

Looks like you might need to tighten up the spam controls.