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I'm sure the govt. can get a cut of their negative profit, yeah
If they were Tesco, they'd be buying tins of soup for £5 then selling them on for £1.
It's the oil / gas producers making the big bucks (or, the producers of the aforementioned £5 tins of soup), as the price for their product has gone up due to demand caused by lack of supply, but the costs for producing it have stayed mostly static.
Howard
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Can some explain to me:
Does 'profit' (of the energy retailers) include money earmarked for re-investment?
If so is there, in theory, any way in which the government to intervene to make sure it goes there and not into shareholders' pockets?