British Gas to raise its gas and electricity prices
 

British Gas to raise its gas and electricity prices.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19912951

Not the news us customers want to hear.:(:td:

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So, no change there then! :mad:

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I made a decision 5 years ago never to use British gas as long as my bottom has a hole in it :). That was because they were then and still are the most expensive power company in the UK and there customer service is the worst i have ever experienced from a UK company.

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The trouble is every other power company always follows suit.

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Agreed, however British gas leaves a bad taste in my mouth because of there terrible customer service. I would move to coal before i would have gas from them.

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makes no odds mate they are all the same

give with one hand and take away with another :(

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I had already had the bad news as i use SSE :(

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I do a comparison check on gas and electric and BG is always at least £80 per year more expensive than EDF which for me is the cheapest.

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A little while ago I did the same but the other way. I went to BG from EDF as BG was the cheapest at that time and I got a further 6% for doing an online tariff. I am now sort of tied to BG until December when they will pay me another £50 the first being paid this November.

After the payments they will not see me for dust. I am not tied in with a 12 / 24 Month contract apart the promise to pay £100.00 I could leave today but loose out on the dosh...

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And as usual the energy sheep follow one another.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19927350

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A Cartel springs to mind here.

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Balls, I am with nPower. Might have to do a check to see if anywhere else is cheaper. Although the rebate each December is handy from nPower. Last year it was over £300!

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What really angers me is that on www.skynews.co.uk it was stated that the CEO's of the two energy companies that put there prices prices ip are on a staggering £380.000 per year and are due to get a ONE MILLION POUND BONUS, now if that is a kick in the nuts, l don't know what is - and all they do is play golf, sip coffee all day and run a company.

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"And run a company".....

I am sure you would be up to the task.

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They get up at 7.30 got to work in a chauffeur driven car, read The Times, to see when they are going to get more money, play golf, watch tv, and go to a meeting of other pen pushers, then go home to a club get drunk and then go home to the wife and family and then bed - can't be bad for £300.000 per year.

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I could do that. If it didn't involve getting up that early...

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It must be nice in your world, Arthur, where facts and fantasy are interchangeable, and bitterness is a draught taken daily....

---------- Post added at 16:44 ---------- Previous post was at 16:43 ----------

I couldn't - I don't play golf....

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To be honest, I've never even tried...

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Some time ago, E.ON promised not to increase residential prices for the rest of this year.

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Maybe but expect one or two price rises to make up for it next year one suspects.

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Don't put all your chickens in one basket just yet denphone, there's a good chance things mite even go further on the upwards scale as the future governments; with trying to put us with the green tax & Carbon Tax with a straight 20-60 % rise for C02 which has no merit in the real world just made up pyramid scam to take the rest of our money away from us all.

Just like US (20%), Australia (40%), Canada (20%) Straight from the pages of Agenda 21 (2012 UN released report- goggle it for more information) on depopulation of the world by 75%.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/10/22.jpg
They control all our world under different organisations names like the UN/ Nato/EU/IMF


Look out for the sign in everyday life

Toonlight out

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I posted a good while ago about the fuel price increases they are all doing it


http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/22...ise-again.html

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EDF to raise energy cost by 10.8%

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20093259

Like sheep following sheep.:(:td:

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Completely Coordinated.

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And there's me thinking that Mr Cameron was going to help solve this problem.

These energy companies are after one thing - money.

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Are you sure? - I thought they were charities, brought into being to give money away..........:erm:

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What did your mates in labour do to stop it, when they were in power ruining the country Arthur

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Nothing to do with the whole sale costs

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/29/uk-power-blackouts-now-unlikely

A shed load of money needs to be invested (in the billions) in renewable energy, tax payer doesn’t want to pay hence increases in bills.

Just bite the bullet and stop your moaning.

A thread will be opened in years to come about having to ration your elec as we did not build more power plants. :angel:

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Why should the taxpayer be paying for it as this is more a case of shortsightedness by previous governments and energy companies over the last 30 years and its now us consumers who are having to stump up the money through increased bills who are paying for most of it.

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The tax payer will not be paying for it the suppliers do.

Any company that is in business do it for 1 thing and one thing and 1 thing only whether it’s selling gas, elec, WARTER or a car it’s to make money. ;)

if they don't then its not a good business.

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Whilst I deplore these price hikes, we feel like we are in a better place this year thanks to BG & MDC (Mansfield district council)

We live on an estate that had its heating & hot water supplied by district heating (3 coal fired boilers) This heating system has come to the end of its life so BG & MDC have installed gas to the whole estate & installed new heating systems in every house be it council, owned or rented at zero cost to the occupier/owner.
We live in a 3 bed semi, fully double glazed, cavity filled & loft insulated house and under the district heating system we were paying £19.00pw (per week without subsidy) and this was solely down to the cost of keeping these antiquated things running and fuelled.
Although we havnt had it installed for that long, working out our usage and comparing that to what we were paying we should be between £400-£500 a year better off with what BG want us to pay (clear & simple)
We had to be tied to BG for 28 days then we could switch to whomever we want to, so using Uswitch to find the cheapest we have gone over to Npower (who also supply or leccy) but have not taken a dual fuel tariff option (Jan14 tarrif) & will be another £50+ a year additionally better off.

Using sites like Uswitch give the end user the option of finding a cheaper supplier which may help with the price you have to pay as long as your not tied in or have a debit on your account you'll be good to go.

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Expect your answer sometime never from him! ;)

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I know but i had to try :)

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A little off subject but BG promised to pay me £50 back in June for going over to a new online tariff. This would be paid in November, when I asked about this payment when they phoned me to see if I had any problems all information regarding this promise to pay had gone from my account.

They were not going to pay as they had no record of the offer, but I had the original email making the offer plus a second email confirming the payment would be made. They have now credited my account with the £50 :D

The reason for posting is in case other members get the same rubbish from BG and have no proof of the offer.

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British Gas profits boosted by colder weather.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21598504

And why does one get the feeling that sooner rather then later higher prices rises will be announced and profits will rise even more again as a result of that.

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They will claim that they did not make the right type of profit and put prices up.

I left British Gas years ago and will never return to them, there is only one supplier worse than BG and that's Npower.

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Seconded

Cheers

Grim

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Thanks to the idiocy of closing down power stations before we have replaced their capacity, gas prices are only heading one way IMHO.

As for profits, well it's not all bad news since profits are what tax is paid on. No profit = no tax.

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And the nimby's will ensure that the only real viable power station design will never be built and thats Nuclear power. Wave and wind are red herrings put forward by tree hugging idiots who think wind and wave will supply all our needs in the future :rolleyes:

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unless they can use one of the still open tax loopholes and avoid paying as much as they can

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I have not seen anywhere British gas is do this to be fair on this side of things unlike cheating water boards. If every profit going into our energy solutions then got not problem.

If not why not. Then only solution is government put penalty fine on profits to pay for our urgent need for energy. I am staggered government allowed profiteering not used levy fines.

Something not right how they using unethical practise gorge on its customers in the winter. Surely we can set rule in parliment winter should be cheaper tarrif.

Argue that Now time for regulators to fix tarrifs.

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I don't know anyone who pays more tax than they have to. Fact remains that without profits there is no tax at all so those who quite like it when companies announce losses might like to focus on that. ;)

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That is the point the loopholes mean they have to pay less than they should do. And you do realise that most the time when they talk about losses they do not actually mean losses they mean they took that much less than they thought.. No company that reports losses of millions would be in business if it actually meant they made less than nothing/Losses on paper as it were. It is all artificial

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Which loopholes are you specifically referring to in the case of BG/Centrica and how many of them are potentially 'dodgy' as opposed to being entirely in keeping with Govt. regulation and long accepted business practice? If they're acting within the rules (like you are by say utilising your tax free ISA allowance) then they are by definition paying what they owe. We can't go around assuming that all companies are engaged in what amounts to tax evasion, that's a matter for HMRC and the courts to determine. If you're suggesting that all revenue should be liable for tax irrespective of the costs etc. incurred in generating it and the various concessions made by Govt. for so doing then I think we can all look forward to much higher bills.

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Not exactly news is it?