The coming winter on the European continent with record energy prices is certainly very busy. Don’t Pay UK, a citizens’ platform in the United Kingdom, is campaigning to persuade consumers to stop paying their bills to energy companies and is calling for civil disobedience, because of the brutal rise in prices, in many cases, can become a real problem. For those families who are forced to take money from anywhere to pay them.
In addition to general demonstrations and other classic protest mechanisms, the platform aims to persuade a sufficient number of citizens to cause serious problems for the energy companies they accuse of taking advantage of the situation. To do so, they ask consumers to cancel the direct debit of companies’ receipts in their banks to keep the situation in check, and also act proactively by pasting posters in their windows. The house facing the street.
The government calls the campaign irresponsible, and claims that it will not only lead to more price hikes, but will also put many users on the list of defaulters. The platform, for its part, confirms that for many, this option is not an option, but rather that they are unable to pay due to circumstances arising from poor planning of energy supply by their government and previous ones. are forced to. According to their figures, around 75,000 people are already determined to take action if the government does not announce any drastic measures in this regard.
What are we paying? Just years of inaction in the energy sector. If governments had forced energy companies to make commitments in renewable energy much sooner, reliance on oil and gas imports from other countries would now be significantly less, and therefore much more manageable. Instead, governments now want “we consume less”, while they continue to buy fossil fuels – now at higher prices – which does not correct the situation.
Of course, it would serve the vultures of the nuclear industry, who basically made a living by proposing fraudulent projects with brutal cost escalation and maintenance expenses that all citizens pay, to say they were “the solution to all ills.” ” Huh. To verify that this is fundamentally wrong, all you have to do is check: What is the cost of energy in France, the country that has opted for nuclear power the most? Oh wonder… it’s the highest in all of Europe! How is this possible?
The answer is very simple: nuclear power is not the solution. Right now, the energy problems with France’s nuclear power plants are more important for Europe than its reliance on Russian gas. Let’s not forget: When former nuclear power plant regulators in many countries specifically warn against building new reactors, things couldn’t be clearer. We are talking about an industry that deceives us like real smugglers who only want to capture more public money for projects that are real bottomless pits, unfit for a world in climate instability , which increase dependence on countries like Russia and which creates management problems. of waste.
Skyrocketing energy prices are the result of sinister political planning over several decades. That citizens cannot or do not want to pay for the mistakes of some politicians, making the current situation practically within reason. And no, there is no “miracle solution”, whatever the nuclear lobby says. The solution is to rethink generation systems to be more dependent on the only truly inexhaustible sources on the planet.
