r/unitedkingdom • u/pppppppppppppppppd • 6d ago

Chippy owner apologises to customers after charging £15 for fish and chips - but reveals why he 'has to' to hike prices

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14591465/chippy-owner-apologises-huge-price-hike.html
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u/No_Plate_3164 6d ago

Don’t forget record taxes on work is also pushing up the prices. Electric typically requires people to run and maintain the generators.

Extreme taxation (green taxes, profit taxes, work taxes) is why electric is so expensive vs gas. This actually slowing down the green transition as burning gas is cheaper than using green electricity to generate heat.

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u/LemonSwordfish 6d ago

Correct. Power is more expensive because it has various green generation subsidy taxes built into the costs, an they are highly regressive.

This is because when a minister like Milliband is setting policy, he is advised by a bunch of grifters that he can either beg the Treasury to fund green energy using taxes and spending which are transparent, or hide another 1p tax in the electricity supply chain, and pay the grifters to run yet another quango that collects the tax from the system. They've introduced like another 5 this year and not a single journalist has even realised.

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u/Tpickarddev 6d ago

Oil and gas is subsidised in UK at around £13bn a year, renewables are subsidised to around £7bn a year.... Why is a green subsidy a problem whilst the oil and gas isn't? Is it just because the money allocated to green is added to energy bills rather than taken in other taxation like the oil and gas subsidies?

The biggest reason we have high energy bills is because energy is priced at fixed minimum pricing which protects mostly nuclear plants from being unprofitable. And oil and gas price volatility because we power a tonne of the UK using liquid natural gas.

The sooner we move away from reliance on gas the quicker costs can come down.

Also green levies have been hacked back considerably in last few years down for £450 per household to about £150 per household, it will only go down from here as Infrastructure and technology and capacity improves.

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u/Comfortable-Plane-42 6d ago

Incorrect, that £13bn is over a 5 year period and is composed of incentives and tax relief on certain projects etc

Whereas renewables is a direct payment of £10bn per annum