system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: why are energy prices rising in the UK, when their main sources is its own North Sea gas?
gpt
Where the gas comes from doesn't matter that much as the UK doesn’t actually own its gas supplies – rather, privately owned corporations such as British Gas control the gas and are allowed to export it to whomever they please.

If the price that other countries are willing to pay goes up then those companies will simply sell to those countries instead.