Lenmil

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7533389.stm

What a joke eh. Move to Oz as it's warmer?

northernbird

I spoke to my MIL yesterday and her gas is now 100 quid a month! She only has a 3 bed terrace, bloody ridiculous.

Lenmil

Blimey that's a bit much already. This is nothing but plain old piracy by the big companies.

mydearboy1

And its going up another 30% in 6months according to newsnight last night!!

JPSUPERHOOPER

if you see sid tell him to fluck off!

isgraham

I saw an article a few weeks ago complaining that the European gas/energy companies buy gas from the UK during summer during which the UK is a net exporter of gas and sell it back to the UK during the winter at a profit during winter during which the UK is a net importer of gas. Of course it degenerated into an anti eurpoe rant but the real story is that both France and Germany have huge gas storage (months worth) facilities and the UK typically has only storage for a couple of weeks. Another fine example of the UK being totally under prepared for just about anything.

daddyofthree

A very good mate of mine is earning on average 2K / day saving large companies huge amounts of money on fuel. This is not including £600/day on the occasiional consultancy work and between 40 - 180k / year contract work for life. He tells me it's good money but the system is all in a very controlled mess. He plays the system legally and we r not affected by what he does - he possibly actually does us a favour in a strage sort of way. He drives an Astra and is a very much d2e Geordie bloke. But your right what is going on?

wardy2

Our gas for our 3 bed terrace is now £140 per month good job i'm not here for the next round of increases.

daddyofthree

large 4 BR detached house and G + E = £110 / week and that's with a soft wife (?) and 2 girls! we r with N Atlantic electricity (dual fuel). And that's in Newcastle (UK) where the weather is not so warm

DunRoaminTheUK

Aren't British Gas trying to buy Origin at the moment?

wardy2

we are in newcastle to definitely need the coal fire here in winter...brrr, glad its not gas

arkon

Warmer!!! Thats a joke right? I'm sat here in Sydney with vest, shirt, and two fleeces on. I've been cold like this for a month or more now. Look on the bright side at least you can turn the gas on to warm the house up! Chances are you will have a novel invention called insulation in a brick and block house to actually keep the heat in. No such luxury here in my toothpick house.

johnnyyt

Just been listening to some Aussie radio on http://www.mix1023.com.au/ and the news item just said that oil prices have dropped overnight to the lowest levels since last May to $122 a barrel.

SO WHY IS BRITISH GAS PUTTING UP THE BLOODY PRICES:curse:
(rant over, breath deeply...........)

Johnnyyt

DunRoaminTheUK

Oil and gas are different fuel sources?

spartacus

Holy crap, that's outrageous.

We used to pay 70 quid a month on gas 18 months ago. I dread to think what it would be now, probably double.

We used to rely quite a bit on open fires. Burn anything; wood, proper coal none of this smokeless stuff, bits of carpets, old tyres.