Hello and welcome to More or Less, your steadfast guide to the most bewildering numbers.

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It's the long period of chronic excess mortality, finally over.

But first, something has gone viral, which is bad if it's a virus, but apparently it's

good if it's a tweet, although we prefer our viral tweets to be true.

So let's take a look at this one.

It says,

Why is there such a vast difference in average energy costs?

And then it lists 11 countries, most of them in the EU and each with a sum in euros.

France and Belgium are both 650 euros, Spain is 620, Germany Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria

and Norway are all somewhere around 550 euros, Finland is 476, Poland is 174, and the

UK is at the bottom of the list with a number way higher than any of the other countries

2,960 euros.

It's more than four times the number for Belgium and France, the next most expensive countries.

Now, it's not at all clear what these numbers are supposed to represent, except that the

question is about energy costs, so something, something energy bills.

What is the tweet actually claiming?

And are we really paying that much more for our energy bills than other countries in Europe?

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