Energy Giants Incite Revolution
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
As Shell makes massive profits because of war while millions struggle British Gas have been employing debt collectors to smash their way into the homes of pensioners, single mums and disabled people. It sums up our broken system - and why the calls of the likes of Bernie Sanders for a peaceful political revolution are more pressing than ever. Seriously, how much of this can you take?
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| 0:00.0 | Seriously, what does it take? This is a question I'm directly posing at you. What does it take |
| 0:07.0 | before you look at this rotten economic and social order? And realise it can't work, |
| 0:13.2 | it won't work, it can't be fixed, it can't be reformed, it can't be humanised, it has to be |
| 0:19.4 | replaced. And to be clear, before I get in trouble with irrelevant authorities, what I'm talking |
| 0:24.1 | about here is peaceful revolution, along the lines of what politicians such as Bernie Sanders |
| 0:30.5 | have called for. Now, as millions of people suffer, a cost of living crisis, in large part |
| 0:36.0 | caused by spiking energy prices, energy giants shell have announced profits worth over £32 |
| 0:42.6 | billion in 2022, sorry, that's double what they got last year and the highest level in their |
| 0:50.6 | 115 year history. Now, this is straightforward war profiteering. What's happened is Russia's |
| 0:56.6 | invasion of Ukraine has caused oil and gas prices to spiral, as I'm sure you've noticed. |
| 1:03.2 | And as a consequence, this lot, the likes of, of course, shell are making an absolute |
| 1:10.3 | packet. Well, of course, households are paying thousands of pounds worth in bills and |
| 1:14.9 | struggling to make ends meet, families in which parents who skip hot meals to make sure their |
| 1:20.0 | kids are fed, who panic over unopened energy bills on their kitchen tables, as they lie awake at |
| 1:26.4 | night, panicking about how they're going to close their own children. Now, it gets worse, it gets |
| 1:31.2 | worse, just to show this, both the energy crisis and the behaviour of big business under our capital |
| 1:40.6 | system. So it's been revealed today, another energy company, which by the way obviously makes |
| 1:47.3 | huge amounts of profits for its shareholders, British gas. According to an investigation |
| 1:51.1 | of the Times newspaper, they've routinely sent debt collectors to break into customers' homes |
| 1:56.5 | and force fit, page ago meters, even when those customers are known to have huge vulnerabilities. |
| 2:02.7 | We're talking about a young mum with a four week old baby whose bills have risen sevenfold. |
| 2:07.6 | We're talking about a 77 year old man. We're talking about a single dad with three young kids. |
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