UK's Fuel Poverty "Humanitarian Crisis"
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Is There a Cost to the Government?
More than six thousand people a year die from the cold in the u k. If price bike isn't addressed directly by government action, i'm concerned at it'll rise. There has to be intervention for a couple of reasons: we've got this disfunctional energy market that just doesn't work properly. We're paying producers whose cost of production is totally unaffected by the war in ugrade because it's green energy. But we're paying them more because the total price has gone up. And that makes no sense at all. So we have to intervene in the energy market. The government can subsidize in the short term, the producers that can't meet that lower price and pay for it
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