Not really.
The government and the central banks caused the inflation by printing tons of money and shutting down the world economy ensuring that way more money was chasing way few things, and in energy in particular by specifically taking actions to reduce energy production.
If companies could just gouge you, then they would have already -- why wouldn't they? The thing is, under normal conditions there's a spot on a curve they have to be at because if they raise prices it also drops, so they need to stay in the right spot or they just make less money with the assets they own.
This isn't some insane conspiracy theory, it's literally macroeconomics 101.
It's actually the reason why people like me have been warning that policies that are only intended to reduce the amount of energy available are really bad because the common man won't be able to afford energy for basic things like heating their homes in winter.
In the context of the market, reducing the energy supply means you have two choices: Either there will be shortages (and I recall there *were* shortages in the UK for a period of time in the past few years), or prices will rise so people use less.
The government and the central banks caused the inflation by printing tons of money and shutting down the world economy ensuring that way more money was chasing way few things, and in energy in particular by specifically taking actions to reduce energy production.
If companies could just gouge you, then they would have already -- why wouldn't they? The thing is, under normal conditions there's a spot on a curve they have to be at because if they raise prices it also drops, so they need to stay in the right spot or they just make less money with the assets they own.
This isn't some insane conspiracy theory, it's literally macroeconomics 101.
It's actually the reason why people like me have been warning that policies that are only intended to reduce the amount of energy available are really bad because the common man won't be able to afford energy for basic things like heating their homes in winter.
In the context of the market, reducing the energy supply means you have two choices: Either there will be shortages (and I recall there *were* shortages in the UK for a period of time in the past few years), or prices will rise so people use less.
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