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I agree...

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State owned companies are good to start with, but there's not incentive to progress or to achieve more efficiencies.
If you have an almost endless pot of money and no competition to provide a service, then eventually the people at the top become lazy and just plod along as they always have, not looking into new ways to give them the edge over other companies in a private sector.

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Unless those private companies get together, then fix prices, but that couldn't happen. Oh wait..

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Actually, gas and electric bills are really starting to annoy me. We pay both by direct debit, both are in credit to approximately £100 (and rising every time we make a payment), yet they're still trying to make us increase our monthly payment.

It beggars belief that the morons who appear to run the energy companies have the intellect to actually run them anyway :shrug:

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I agree with what you say lost but at the end of the day thats a management problem and should be treated exactly the same as it would in the private sector. As it stands are any of our energy and water company's actually fully UK owned if they are they are the minority and that puts us in a weak position.

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I had the same problem and with my water also - They soon stop when you keep asking for a cheque.

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I got asked to stop using them as a bank!