How is the autumn statement going to affect you?

[lastlid]

Relief over fuel duty but concerns over fracking - BBC headline.

If they can make a success with shale gas then we may be able to look forward to cheaper gas and electricity prices. This could be the thing to bail the UK out of this triple dip recession.

But too late to dig this government out of its hole.

[bigmarco]

Relief over fuel duty but concerns over fracking - BBC headline.

If they can make a success with shale gas then we may be able to look forward to cheaper gas and electricity prices. This could be the thing to bail the UK out of this triple dip recession.

But too late to dig this government out of hole.

Come off it! I'm old enough to remember all the promises over how better off we were going to be when they struck gold in the North Sea.
Privatised Utility companies have no intention of handing anything back to us other than a few crumbs.

[lastlid]

Come off it! I'm old enough to remember all the promises over how better off we were going to be when they struck gold in the North Sea.
Privatised Utility companies have no intention of handing anything back to us other than a few crumbs.

I know what you are saying. But think how the country would have been if North Sea oil and gas wasn't there.

Also a trip to Aberdeen will demonstrate how oil and gas has had an impact - it enjoys the highest standard of living in the UK outside of London.

In a sense you are right, but we would have been far less well off without the oil. Take it away at the point of Scottish devolution and in England we will see a difference. Shale gas can bridge the void.