and fuel. i disconnected from mains gas and installed a heat pump, solar and a home battery system and swapped my petrol car to electric. i was protected from the recent fuel shortages, remember, we didn't have shortages, remember, we didn't have shortages, it was a shortage of drivers, but i now protected from instability in hiking in prices and the answer is to reduce reliability and invest in renewables at government and individual levels. 0ne government and individual levels. one more, i miraculously paid attention to news over the summer and fixed, variable tariff to a fixed tariff for a year before it went up, keeping it pretty much to the precrisis bill. now i am nervous about what happened next year, i suppose i have only kicked the can down the road. gas prices reached record levels yesterday, falling only after vladimir putin suggested russia could supply more gas to europe at the russian deputy prime minister has suggested it will help