Comments by "" (@danielwhyatt3278) on "BP sees biggest profit in 14 years as energy bills soar - BBC News" video.
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This should be crucial. I think it’s because a lot of the governments around the world don’t want to be taking steps like these that they believe would eventually lead them to be coming total state control governments. Basically where everything is controlled by the state rather than allowed to be done by private hands. If the government was allowed to control this then it could open the door for them to control other sectors that would usually be part of the free market, so that’s perhaps why they aren’t wanting to touch it and just trusting the companies info they are handing to them to actually manage it themselves. But yes, we critically do need to be doing this now as it is just reaching too much of a criminal level. House prices and energy bills are skyrocketing when they don’t have to be. These companies are the ones that are going for the easy route when they need to be using the massive profits they are raking in, to actually allow them to switch to renewables, thereby lowering our regular bills and the amount of maintenance these big energy companies have to do. Most of all, there needs to be a full investigation into how much houses cost, so that only certain areas can reach a certain maximum price per square metre of space. For example the value of a property in an expensive area of London versus a poor area or somewhere in the countryside.
Right now in the countryside it is just impossibly expensive for properties that aren’t anywhere near worth the numbers they have stamped on them. Some of them two or three times what you would really consider to be their true value. We understand there is obviously a demand for houses with an increasing population, but people inevitably scrape the money together to buy these houses anyway, so people selling the houses cheaper or more expensive, isn’t going to change realistically how many houses are being filled. It just simply means the person who has now bought that house is a lot poorer than they would’ve been otherwise. It’s all down to the people who previously owned those houses, desperate to make a profit when moving on so they can buy the next house which might be also expensive, and the agents who try to get as much money out of it as possible. It’s just a never ending cycle of price increases. Those who are suffering from this the most are probably those in the cities, and people like me who are students and graduate students who just can’t afford the ever increasing rent bills on properties that are crap.
A cap needs to be brought in and it needs to be done stat.
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