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Originally Posted by Damien
No you should explain the rest of the raises because it makes your rant illogical otherwise. If your contention is that this rate raise is a anomaly as a result of Miliband then you need to answer why all the previous rate raises occurred when he hadn't said these things.
Why did British Gas raise their prices 6% last year: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19921042 ?
Why did they raise their prices 16%! the year before that:
http://www.britishgas.co.uk/blog/201...energy-prices/ ?
Why did they raise their price by 7% the year before that: http://www.britishgas.co.uk/blog/201...-announcement/ ?
Every year they raise prices but this time it's because of Ed Miliband?
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OK. I concede that. So one of the green taxes and the 5% VAT is down to the EU but it still leaves a lot that isn't.
The cost of fuel is down to the fact he didn't build new power plants 5/10/15/20 years ago. France is a member of the EU and has relatively cheap energy because they built nuclear power plants decades before. This is our own fault and we need to address it. |
Thing is though wholesale gas prices are pretty much at the same level they where in 2009 so that cannot be reason why there has been such a big rise and then there's this from SSE
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Will Morris, Group Managing Director, Retail, said: “We’re sorry we have to do this. We’ve done as much as we could to keep prices down, but the reality is that buying wholesale energy in global markets, delivering it to customers’ homes, and government-imposed levies collected through bills – endorsed by all the major parties – all cost more than they did last year.“Eighty five per cent of a typical energy bill is made up of costs outside our direct control and these costs have increased. So far this year we have made a loss from supplying energy as a result of the higher costs we have been facing and continue to face.
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http://www.sse.com/PressReleases/2013/OctoberPriceChange/