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Now we're out of the EU we probably could do that.
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And given the giant profits the energy producers are making, presumably the cost of extraction isn’t anywhere near (or as volatile as) the wholesale price.
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They've already sold the rights to extract gas so would have to go back on that to do this, and would then need the expertise / machinery to extract it (and would be unlikely to get help from oil companies who have just been burnt by govt).
UK international reputation hurt for failing to honour contracts, lack of actual ability to get stuff out.
So it could have worked if we'd planned better from the start but the issue was in starting the "sell it to oil co" plan in the first place.
Arguably they could still tax them more and then use that money to fund rebates for consumers- that's more or less the lab plan now I think
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take back control
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Going back to the whole cost of living crisis and nationalising essential services. Surely wholesale gas prices are only an issue for countries that don't have any gas supplies themselves.
But in the UK the North Sea produces more natural gas than we actually use. The issue is that private companies are extracting the UK's gas, then selling them to the highest bidder on the international market. If the government were to take back control of their own gas supplies, they could supply all of the UK's gas at cost price.
Is this a gross simplification?