• Zombie@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    Energy costs many times what it did too

    Perhaps for the consumer, not for the energy providers

    What costs more? Gas or wind? Oil or solar? Coal or wave?

    There’s a premium charged for new technology, sure. To cover R&D costs, new tooling, etc, but once the machinery is made, the fuel is essentially free. The wind blows itself, the sun has its own fuel, the tides move freely

    Energy arbitrarily costs more because those that sell it have decided it costs more. Aka corporate greed, which is what this post is complaining about in the first.

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      4 months ago

      No, for one energy has gone up due to increased demand for fossil fuels after cutting Russian gas off