Paid over the odds for your energy? MPs are interested in hearing your experiences

Marktheshark wrote: »

Just switched from sse this morning using the cheap energy club on here.
Estimated £347 a year saving.

Is that a straight quote from the site or the difference between your chosen company and what you would have paid with your present supplier's fix? Only the latter is meaningful, as so called savings are assuming you are stupid enough to revert to standard rate with your supplier.


I note that they are going ahead with restricting the difference between fixes and standard rate tariffs,so of course it will be the fixes which charge more rather than the standard rates dropping. Yet again we are punished because certain sectors of the population are stupid and/or lazy .


The government has cost us more for phone and broadband, now power costs will have another hike,so I wonder if they will meddle with the systems used by the water companies next.


Perhaps we should have council tax rises if we live in relatively clean aired areas , so they can give a discount to those who choose to live by busy roads or in inner city areas.


Of course any increases we pay due to helpful (not) meddling will not affect the meddlers, as they probably get theirs paid for ,being deemed as necessary for their jobs.


Our councillors get a fee large enough to pay their full phone bill,because they may need to use the phone to call on council business or to speak to a constituent. This goes back to before inclusive call packages, when calls could be very expensive and ridiculous in one case where councillor spouses got a double payout. (We knew about the latter as a relative
knew the couple)

teddysmum wrote: »

Our councillors get a fee large enough to pay their full phone bill,because they may need to use the phone to call on council business or to speak to a constituent.

I remember seeing something from the expenses scandal where an MP was arguing that he should have his phone bill paid for free because he needed it for broadband... except, he was getting fibre broadband from Virgin Media.

phillw wrote: »

That is still meaningful, because your current supplier isn't going to put you on it's cheapest deal automatically because they aren't allowed to tie you in.

One would assume that the majority using a comparison site are likely to be on a fix and know about reverting to standard tariffs, so the quoted savings are unrealistic and the only people making those savings will be ones who are now on the standard tariff.


The only way to find out what your saving will roughly be( as your usage could change), is choose, say, Company A and subtract the quoted saving or annual cost for your present supplier's new fix from the quoted amounts for Company A.