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Title: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: Fly on October 11, 2012, 06:32:44 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/household-bills/9601940/British-Gas-to-raise-prices-as-early-as-tomorrow.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/household-bills/9601940/British-Gas-to-raise-prices-as-early-as-tomorrow.html)
Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: Scimitar on October 11, 2012, 07:45:44 PM
Guess there must be another bad winter on the way then :!
Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: Fly on October 11, 2012, 07:53:51 PM
It would stand to logic  ::)
Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: Slacker on October 11, 2012, 08:45:51 PM
privatisation = competition = lower prices
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Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: Fly on October 11, 2012, 08:56:28 PM
Yup, sounds about right Andy ::)
Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: chesterfieldchris on October 11, 2012, 09:19:56 PM
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Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: Slacker on October 11, 2012, 10:15:45 PM
From comparison sites it's not just a case of comparing a few companies but each one seems to have loads of different packages and introductory discounts. Each one promises to beat others though often they will say things like you pay x amount per month with them we can do it for a tenner less. This is course meaningless unless you have a zero balance in a 12 month period. Thanks for the offer though, I think I've been with the present one long enough to give a year's readings so I'll look it up.
Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: Slacker on October 11, 2012, 10:28:08 PM
Any good?
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Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: Slacker on October 11, 2012, 11:02:55 PM
First Utility comes out best on Money Supermarket, about £100 cheaper than who I'm with
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Post by: chesterfieldchris on October 12, 2012, 10:25:37 AM
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Post by: handy on October 12, 2012, 03:04:00 PM
Major works are going on at Drax power station ,  to acommodate bio fuel brought in by train i noticed they are already mixing stuff with coal even before the plant is built i believe Drax supplys about a tenth of the UK with electric, what are all the bio fuels they can use wood would be one and there is a small one near Scunthorpe i worked at used chicken poo.
Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: chesterfieldchris on October 12, 2012, 03:33:14 PM
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Post by: therealjr on October 12, 2012, 04:12:54 PM
privatisation = competition = lower prices
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Except of course you've got absolutely no idea what a nationalised British Gas would be charging given that the government would be using the income to prop up the econony or how much extra they would be costing us every year for infrastructure improvements.
Labour Red Rose tinted glasses are fine but only if there is some level of proof.
Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: chesterfieldchris on October 17, 2012, 05:14:21 PM
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Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: Slacker on November 23, 2012, 12:21:09 PM
Had link to this sent at work

Could be good if a lot of people sign up

http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/community/derbyshire_big_deals/default.asp?VD=bigdeals (http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/community/derbyshire_big_deals/default.asp?VD=bigdeals)
Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: chesterfieldchris on November 23, 2012, 02:51:58 PM
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Post by: Alsatian on November 23, 2012, 06:10:09 PM
I registered with a similar organisation a while ago -  can't remember the name - and, unfortunately, nothing came of it.
Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: Fly on November 23, 2012, 06:30:54 PM
I have a lack of faith in most things council, I won't be signing up.
Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: Alsatian on November 23, 2012, 08:02:32 PM
I registered with a similar organisation a while ago -  can't remember the name - and, unfortunately, nothing came of it.

I've been trying to find the name of the company but can't, the outcome of the operation was that not all the big six energy providers were willing to take part and, of those that did, they couldn't be competitive enough for me to change supplier.

Can't imagine that this will be any different.
Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: Fly on November 23, 2012, 08:06:42 PM
As Cchris said, if the council can't sort their own, how can they help us.
I trust Cchris can back up his statement I've just backed him on LOL
I've no reason not to.
Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: chesterfieldchris on November 23, 2012, 08:51:41 PM
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Title: Re: Daylight robbery ??
Post by: Fly on November 23, 2012, 09:03:03 PM
Must admit the 5000 caught my eye, it's a drop in even Derbyshire's ocean.