howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
heart rending report here that will have members reaching for their tissues.
maybe we should all put our hands in our pockets and have a collection for them?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/8895676/Centrica-says-warm-weather-weak-economy-to-hit-profits.htmlWondered when this would raise its head, and the mild weather would start them bleating......Hard winter last year, everyone needed their warmth....and these red necks raise their prices......
These utilities should not have been put into private hands.....shame
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
just watch them rise again now that houses are better insulated and the autumn has been mild.
i had a letter from them yesterday explaining how they were getting a bad press unfairly when all they wanted to do was help people.
they gave some vary handy hints on how to keep warm cheaply.
trouble is the library closes in the evenings and all day sunday.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Did they tell you to sit with hat and gloves as well as the well used phrase put on another layer.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
so brit gas is crying wolf and shedding crocodile tears,one saye it all and that is TOUGH,about time then robin hoods got a life and put there custermers first.
1,lower prices to an aceptable level.
2,have better custermer skills.
3,refund 6 months fuel bill as compo.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
they have learned their lesson and dropped the hat and gloves bit.
other useful advice given is to check the local weather forecast.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
for the local forcast look out of window,
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
Things will get worse not better.
We need to get a grip. An extra layer of clothing, padded shoes, a pair of slacks beneath the trousers.
I do all these things.
I refuse to put the heating on even though it's included in the rent.
But I still think it's wrong that other people shoud have to go cold through lack of financial availability while fat cats sit in the sauna.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Guest 670- Registered: 23 Apr 2008
- Posts: 573
This is a clear example of privatisation at its worst. All that will happen now is that they will all increase their prices , there is no real competition. The same applies to the railways where before long you'll need a mortgage to be able to travel on one.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
Re nationalise, perches supplies direct from the producers ,cut out the speculators
Profits back in to the network, run it as a business for the customers out of the hands of Westminster
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
I cannot understand why people complain when a British company makes a profit. It's smacks of class warfare. So energy bills are going up. Deal with it. Gas and electricity are expensive and willl become more so over the next few years.
Another British success story in my mind.
Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
- Posts: 919
There is nothing wrong with profit but all the utility companies raise their prices one after the other every winter, there is no competition, they are just conning the public
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
they say it is about wholesale prices, prices rise just as the winter starts then any small cut happens in spring.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
- Posts: 1,266
£23 million profit reported by British Gas earlier in the year. 6% price increase in October. It really is time for a Government to put a stop to corporate greed, however it's not going to happen with the Tories who applaud this sort of thing as a free market economy. What price social justice?
True friends stab you in the front.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
courtesy of the telegraph.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
total hogwash
prices go up when maybe theres a need not so high though
but when the barrels cost less or profits so high
the costs dont come down
privatisation at its worst
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
I know it's from the Mail and in some quarters it's convenient for people to discredit a story because it's in the Mail but one of the fundamental reasons for the hike in energy prices is this ridiculous obsession with a warming world. Someone tell Charlie to have a word with Dave and help to put a stop to this madness:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.htmlhoward mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
this shambles of a business are at it again, received an e mail from them this morning demanding to know why i had not paid my gas bill. i pay by card and overpay in the summer so i have plenty in reserve for the winter usage.
logged on to my account and saw that the last bill was in january which left my account in credit to the tune of 260 quid!!
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
Presumably you sent them a suitable reply Howard ?
Roger
