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This is gonna be a hard winter in Europe, that's for sure. I fear a "free for all" type of scenario where everyone will be scraping to get some gas.
by sfusato 4y ago
This is gonna be a hard winter in Europe, that's for sure. I fear a "free for all" type of scenario where everyone will be scraping to get some gas.
- downrightmike 4y agoOr just Ryanair'ing down to Spain
- paganel 4y agoUnfortunately not all of us can afford 3-month Airbnb stays in places like Southern Spain over winter.
- andix 4y agoWHO says your heating bill will be less?
- Hamuko 4y agoYou still need to heat your home, are you there or not.
- jefftk 4y agoIf no one will be there you can drain the pipes and leave it unheated over the winter. People typically do this with summer homes. (I think this thread is silly though: there's no way enough people will move to warm climates for the winter to make a dent in cold-country fuel consumption.)
- secondcoming 4y agoAt least in the UK, the part of the bill that is really increasing is the Standing Charge (a charge just for being connected to the gas network). So even if you turn off your heating your bills are still going to increase.
- roguas 4y agoNo, if you live in multiapartment complex. At least in my country there are laws that forbid you as others have to provide extra heating.
- jefftk 4y ago> laws that forbid you as others have to provide extra heating Link? As far as I know, there's nothing like this in the US, and it's something that I've known broke people to do.
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- kelnos 4y agoNot as much, though. Leave home and set the thermostat to 50F or so.
- Void_ 4y agoI was really surprised about the gas prices in Canaries during my trip in February... What's going on there?
- dkjaudyeqooe 4y agoRyanair hedged their kerosene at an effective price of $60 a barrel, so no problem. They also seem to be the only airline that isn't cancelling thousands of flights right now. As much as I dislike them, they seem to be well run.
- aaomidi 4y agoThey know how to handle margins of profit and also a way higher scale than most airlines.
- im3w1l 4y agoI think their big thing was understanding the difference between stated preferences vs revealed ones. They took away beloved perks of flying, and managed to show that people weren't willing to pay what it cost to provide them. I still remember their proposal for ultra-cheap standing-only tickets (couldn't get that one past regulators). Kinda wonder if it was seriously meant or not.
- dkjaudyeqooe 4y agoNot sure about "cost to provide them" but unbundling is their game. Here are some prices (in euros): Under the seat bag: 0 Reserved seat: 10 10kg checked bag (carry on size): 16 20kg checked bag (full size): 26 A bag being overweight by 1kg: 70 So they get pricey quickly if you're taking any decent amount of luggage. God help you if you don't have accurate scales at home.
- tomjakubowski 4y agoAny non-flat rate pricing for baggage is godsent. I've long been annoyed that US airlines will charge the same amount to check a small bag, with a few pieces of lightweight passenger cabin contraband, as to check a giant 50 pound duffel bag.
- kasey_junk 4y agoSo long as the airlines rigidly enforce carryon size restrictions. It was bad enough when baggage was free, now you’ve got people slamming steamer trunks in the overhead cabinets just to avoid the fees.
- walrus01 4y agoWhen things are really frozen, maybe Ted Cruz can give some tips on last mile airfares to sunny destinations
- odiroot 4y ago"Let them eat cake"
- downrightmike 4y agocake was not like we have today, it was dough used to line the oven to keep the actual baked good from burning, like how some recopies say to have a pan of water in the oven. In terms of the sentiment, The EU dug the hole on this one, and de-nuking their grid was just plain stupid.
- z3t4 4y agoOr heat the house by mining crypt currency. Crypto currency might be the only free and stable currency once China want USA to pay back the loans.
- vbezhenar 4y agoWhat about CNY? China is world leader, surely its currency should be pretty stable. I, personally, started to invest my tiny savings into CNY.
- Glavnokoman 4y agoHow do you do that? Directly into currency or in china-traded stocks? Which broker do you use for that?
- vbezhenar 4y agoI go to local bank and buy cash.
- kasey_junk 4y agoThe problem with CNY are several fold: defacto peg, difference in price between onshore and offshore cny, strict currency controls make treasury operations challenging for real users of the currency, governmental policy of treating foreign holders different than domestic, etc. At the end of the day most currency holders want a liberalized currency and CNY is far from that.
- refurb 4y agoI remember some Reddit post asking about CNY and the replies were all “Wait, all the rich Chinese are desperate to get their money out and you want to bring your money in?”
- baybal2 4y ago
- vbezhenar 4y agoJust install stove and cut some trees around? You can build working stove from few dozens of bricks really quickly.