{"id":803250,"date":"2022-09-19T05:52:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T05:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=255305"},"modified":"2022-09-19T05:52:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T05:52:24","slug":"why-our-electricity-prices-cant-be-left-to-bogus-free-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/19\/why-our-electricity-prices-cant-be-left-to-bogus-free-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Our Electricity Prices Can\u2019t Be Left to Bogus \u2018Free Markets\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of electricity has risen astronomically in Europe over the last two years: by four times over the previous year and 10 times over the last two years. The European Union (EU) has claimed that this rise in prices is due to the increase in the price of gas in the international market and  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/19\/why-our-electricity-prices-cant-be-left-to-bogus-free-markets\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/19\/why-our-electricity-prices-cant-be-left-to-bogus-free-markets\/\">Why Our Electricity Prices Can\u2019t Be Left to Bogus \u2018Free Markets\u2019<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/19\/why-our-electricity-prices-cant-be-left-to-bogus-free-markets\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of electricity has risen astronomically in Europe over the last two years: by four times over the previous year and 10 times over the last two years. The European Union (EU) has claimed that this rise in prices is due to the increase in the p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803251,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803250\/revisions\/803251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}