I see. Thanks for explaining.

It’s going to be a tough winter. Tougher than most Western Europeans have face in a long time. And tougher than most people can imagine.

I would expect to hear stories like the one in the OP if the price had ‘only’ gone to €2–300/month. If someone is struggling to pay €100, then any increase makes it unaffordable. €1000+ is just… wow…

I hope the fire service is ready for when people start burning wood/books/coal etc indoors without a fireplace to stay warm.

These shits expect to double their profits while providing half the energy we used last year. Energy is fast becoming the core contradiction of our era (if it wasn’t before). I simply cannot see how energy companies think this is at all sustainable, or how governments can be so ideologically warped that they refuse to accept the need to intervene properly.

At this rate, I cannot see any current major European political party surviving the next decade. They’re going to be torn apart between the far right and the far left. (Unfortunately, the far ‘left’ doesn’t really exist in most of Europe, but the centrist parties will still collapse.)

It’s like fossil capital is predicting the planet to collapse, so they’re trying to make as much money as possible while they still can, but for what? If the planet collapses, that money won’t be worth anything.

Wtf are they thinking?