My energy supplier has gone bust

Yep. Radio news this morning saying we need to look out for a £400-600 per annum rise in the domestic price cap next April.

There's a bit of Putin in this. He's been restricting supplies to Europe to fore our hand in to approving his Nordstream 2 gas pipelin which would avoid Ukraine and give him more contorl over teh supply to Europe. I say we shoudl let the baby have its bottle, but plan to do without gas within 10 years - nuclear and renewables. Obviuosly, having a elected a UK government which is heavily involved with Russian money, this won't happen.

Essentially, the West has squanderd its Cold War victory through arrogance and intransigence, Putin's aim has always been to re-construct the USSR in some form, and destroy the US. He's doing rather well.

Back when I switched from Octopus variable to a fixed tariff, Martin Lewis was telling people not to switch to a fixed tariff because the capped tariff would be less. Now he's saying how terrible this increase will be for people on variable tariffs when the cap increase in April.... So will be apologise for the poor advice he was giving? I doubt it.

Not sure I understand the connection you’re making there, Esp. Worldwide gas prices have little to do with developments in renewable energy.

Meanwhile, we have the ‘Net Zero Scrutiny Group’ using high fossil prices as a pretext to press the government to let their boneheaded supporters go on doing what they like regardless of the long-term consequences.

We do have an home grown sector of the economy which we can use to reduce the very high gas prices. Fracking, but that is banned. Coal for the heritage steam train lines is imported from Khazakstan rather than being mined in Wales. It's bonkers.

Common sense is severely lacking

It's common sense to frack for gas?  It's common sense to keep coal mines open for heritage steam railways?

I am not advocating for abandoning long term goals, but the UK seems to be going it alone in terms of the pace of change, and we are in danger of impoverishing ourselves and creating more greenhouse gases in the process.

I am buying an electric car so it's not like I have my head in the sand. But where is the sense in buying and transporting coal from 3,000 miles away, when it is available within 100 miles and the money stays in the UK? IF we are going to use coal, even in small amounts, at least use our own coal. The steel industry has a similar problem. UK Steel is so expensive because energy is expensive. It the country decided to ban the use of coal that is one thing, but if we are going to continue to use it....