Gas and electricity price hike to hit East Lancashire residents (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Go online and see what we are throwing away on green energy + windmills esp.That will dismay you!

The big squeeze of the commoner continues. There is more in there somewhere.

This is what happens when You close down the mining industry as arthur scargil says told you so . He pridicted this in 84 again the country let down by the torys and SCABs , oh sorry I forgot all torys are SCABs.

Privatisation of th utilities was supposed to bring competiton and lower prices. Has it? Would not for profit state regulated utilities be a better option? Why isn't the Labour Party policy to introduce such a system? Surely this would work for the benefit of the people rather than a few shareholders and executives.

Get a woodburner/multifuel
..Defra approved ( if you live in a smokless area )
Watch your fuel bills drop through the floor.

There can be no justification for such huge increases. I have to say the last government was not a labour government , We are being robbed by these companies which were ours before being privatised. Just like the Banks are going to screw us over big time, you can,t demand to be paid in cash anymore or pay bills by weekly book payments in cash without being charged extra. we need to take back control of our utilities. The Tories have always lined their own pockets first at the expense of the tax payer.

2 for 5p wrote:
This is what happens when You close down the mining industry as arthur scargil says told you so . He pridicted this in 84 again the country let down by the torys and SCABs , oh sorry I forgot all torys are SCABs.

I doubt Arthur was right at all 2 for 5p we could not burn coal in our power stations if we wanted to European legislation has seen to this.

shytalk wrote:
Get a woodburner/multifuel

..Defra approved ( if you live in a smokless area )
Watch your fuel bills drop through the floor.

I bought mine last year but still have not got it fitted, hopefully in the next few weeks we shall see.

mavrick wrote:
There can be no justification for such huge increases. I have to say the last government was not a labour government , We are being robbed by these companies which were ours before being privatised. Just like the Banks are going to screw us over big time, you can,t demand to be paid in cash anymore or pay bills by weekly book payments in cash without being charged extra. we need to take back control of our utilities. The Tories have always lined their own pockets first at the expense of the tax payer.

Hi Maverick if you do a bit of research you will find all these increases are to pay for the wind farm networks etc. We are paying for a useless technology that does not work that's the worst part about it :(

Also anyone that is interested in Energy storage might like to look up Liquid Air as an alternative to Batteries, especially useful to power stations.

Just another example of the elite robbing more money form the plebs.We are being bled dry by a bunch of scumbags who couldn't care less about the impact of what they do

Good call wrote:
Just another example of the elite robbing more money form the plebs.We are being bled dry by a bunch of scumbags who couldn't care less about the impact of what they do

Hi Good Call Please read what I wrote to Maverick above this is what we are all having to pay for.

mavrick is correct in that customers are charged extra if they don't pay by direct debit (DD) and choose to pay on receipt of their energy Bill (or choose to pay each week for example). Direct debit is the biggest con of modern payment methods and rarely benefits the consumer and mostly benefits the energy company. Direct debit has effectively become a scam by which energy companies profit to the tune of millions of pounds a year.
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utilities companies use 'Incentives' to get your money as fast as possible into their accounts. For example, they offer percentage 'reductions' for schemes such as 'prompt payment' or 'direct debit'.
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If you choose to pay a little each week, then when the dreaded energy bill arrives its either zero or at least manageable and not encroaching into other payments - such as direct debit mortgage payments. Of course this means the energy companies will penalise you for not paying by direct debit in the first instance and you'll receive no DD discounts.
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these 'massive price hikes' by the energy companies are clearly unjustified, yet to ensure the huge increases are 'dampened'; the customer needs to use its purchasing power to make them unsustainable. To do this we should all go back to basics and pay our energy bills in small installments - for example weekly at the post office or other paypoint/payzone outlet.
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Without going into details of 'how' this will stifle the onslaught of unjustified energy price hikes, you will be budgeting better, and at the same time making sure the RIP-OFF energy companies can't make accurate future price increase predictions that currently leave the energy firms in massive surplus profit.
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The criminal increases in energy bills can be curtailed if we all went back to basics and paid a little when we can afford it, and not give the energy rats the lump sums that have enabled them to con us in the past.
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EITHER that, or we all wear thermal clothes and turn the TV off when the X-Factor starts its annual diatribe of manufactured weekly 'excuse' for a top of the pops alternative?
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your all slamming the government - but YOU wanted green and green is expensive.

Dont fall for any of it. Privatisation only leads to lower prices when cartels are not in charge...and this country has more organised cartels at play than anyone else.

jimpy0 wrote:
your all slamming the government - but YOU wanted green and green is expensive.

No actually when where we asked about wanting "green".The utility companies are using it as an excuse to extort more money out of us.