I cannot see how even cheap government loans are remotely going to fix this problem of crashing energy companies. Because the fundamental problem is that energy customers are MASSIVELY loss making for energy suppliers that haven’t hedged their gas supply commitments. That’s…
true for those businesses failing now and any big company that might take on those stranded customers. So why would big companies ride to the rescue? I can’t see it. Unless that is government were to legislate to allow the price cap next spring to rise way beyond…
even the current doubling in market prices, such that today’s losses were offset by tomorrow’s super profits. But that would crush living standards and be politically disastrous for the Tories. So one way or another this government is going to end up pumping billions…
of pounds of subsidies - our money - into the energy supply industry. It is yet another serious market failure. And yet another chance for Boris Johnson to redefine the Tories as the party of huge public spending and market intervention. What strange times.
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