Imagine if you had to pay four times more for your home heating, fuel for car, or electricity for your home. That kind of expense is facing Brits this winter.
The higher household energy prices come on top of hefty increases in food and fue] prices. Greg Jackson, the chief executive of a renewable energy company, Octopus Energy, has pointed out that if the price of beer had risen as much that of natural gas over the last year, a pint in a pub would cost £25, or about $30.
– Mark Landler in The New York Times