Dispatches: The Truth About Your Energy Bill: Watch again

1carminestocky

(In the main) a very interesting programme. The part I found the most interesting was hearing the critical views of people like Philip Wright (Professor at Sheffield University and described as a world expert on the gas industry), Allan Asher (ex head of Energywatch) and Jonathan Stern of Oxford Institute of Energy Studies. These are people whose credentials are hard to argue with and each one of them were VERY critical of the energy companies. This programme is available to watch again on the channel 4 website. Here's the link:

http://www.channel4.com/services/catchup-playlist/playlist.asx?contractId=46480&episodeId=1

Plushchris

Admitedly the views of Allan Asher were interesting, but is he only saying these now because he is out of a job?

And to be honest, the rest of the advert seemed like a program about Uswitch

1carminestocky

Plushchris wrote: »

Admitedly the views of Allan Asher were interesting, but is he only saying these now because he is out of a job?

And to be honest, the rest of the advert seemed like a program about Uswitch

And Philip Wright's views/theories? Any thoughts?

Plushchris

1carminestocky wrote: »

And Philip Wright's views/theories? Any thoughts?

Yeah, I agreed with pretty much everything he said (and so did you by the sound of it) does that make us "world experts on the gas industry"

If so I'll drink to that :beer::beer:

Plushchris

What confuses me is the fact that depending on what program you watched (Watchdog or Dispatches) you would be left with a completely different view of what going to happen, Dispatches pretty much said prices could go up again, Watchdog said prices will be expected to fall.

If we are to make judgements based on TV programs, I would prefer to go with Watchdog.

iamesbo

Plushchris wrote: »

Admitedly the views of Allan Asher were interesting, but is he only saying these now because he is out of a job?

And to be honest, the rest of the advert seemed like a program about Uswitch

No he was very critical whilst he was in the job too.