{"id":63026,"date":"2022-07-07T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T19:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63026"},"modified":"2022-07-07T14:40:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T19:40:53","slug":"were-heading-for-a-messy-and-expensive-breakup-with-natural-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63026","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re heading for a messy, and expensive, breakup with natural gas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We\u2019re heading for a messy, and expensive, breakup with natural gas<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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R<\/span>ussia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated a number of fault lines already present within the global energy supply chain. This is especially true in Europe, where many countries were reliant on the superstate’s natural resources, and are now hastily looking to cut ties before the supply is shut off. This has revealed the fragility of Europe\u2019s energy market, and caused it to drive up demand and prices for consumers all over the globe.<\/p>\n

In the UK, things are becoming increasingly dire and energy prices are skyrocketing. Bad planning on the infrastructure side and the cancellation of several major domestic energy efficiency programs are exacerbating the problem. It\u2019s clear that real, useful action on the national level isn\u2019t coming any time soon. So, I wondered, what would happen if I, personally, simply tried to break up with natural gas on my own? It\u2019s relatively straightforward but, as it turns out, it comes at a cost that only one percenters will be able to bear.<\/p>\n

Dan Cooper: Energy consumer<\/strong><\/p>\n

I live in a four-bedroom, end-terraced house that\u2019s around 150 years old and I\u2019ve tried, as best as I can, to renovate it in an eco-friendly way. Since we bought it almost a decade ago, my wife and I have insulated most of the rooms, installed a new gas central heating system and hot water cylinder. We are,\u00a0like nearly 20 million other households in the UK<\/a>, reliant on natural gas to supply our home heating, hot water and cooking. And in the period between January 8th and April 7th, 2022, I was billed on the following usage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Cost (GBP)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Electricity (incl. standing charge)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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861<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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0.32<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u00a3307.18<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Gas (incl. standing charge)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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8696.7<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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0.753<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u00a3678.80<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Total (incl. tax and other charges)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u00a31,035.28<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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We\u2019re heading for a messy, and expensive, breakup with natural gas Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated a number of fault lines already present within the global energy supply chain. This is especially true in Europe, where many countries were reliant on the superstate’s natural resources, and are now hastily looking to cut ties before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33001,33000,554],"class_list":["post-63026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-daniel-cooper","tag-msn-com","tag-natural-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63027,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63026\/revisions\/63027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}