Petition Downing Street Gas & Electric

buckrogers

Petition the Prime Minister to Force utilities Companies (Gas & Electric) to reduce their current prices

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ElecGasBills/

In todays news

The boss of a UK energy firm has said suppliers will not pass on all of the savings they make on cheaper wholesale gas and electricity to consumers.
In the week oil tumbled to just above 40 US dollars a barrel, EON UK chief executive Paul Golby said the industry needed to protect profit margins. This was in order to invest an estimated £100 billion in new wind farms and power plants and to meet environmental targets, he told the Observer newspaper.
In the last year, energy companies have increased bills by about a third on average, blaming the doubling in the cost of wholesale gas and electricity. Wholesale prices have fallen back in recent months, but suppliers have yet to cut bills across the board.


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ladaowner

just signed it but only 17 people have signed it to date.

buckrogers

ladaowner wrote: »

just signed it but only 17 people have signed it to date.

I know, very surprised :-(

mel_mel

Just signed it as well. There are a few petitions on this site about gas and elec prices. I've signed them all. Can't understand why people don't sign, yet can click round these forums. It doesn't take much time and as for being a waste of time, as some say WHY. That is the trouble with people they all moan but do nowt about it.

Pssst

Surely Gas suppliers have signed contracts to purchase gas at higher rates for future supply and therefore they cannot reduce prices to customers by very much?

What you really should be petitioning for is a remedy for the CAUSE not the symptoms.

The symptom of higher gas prices is directly caused by the breaking down and privatising of the gas industry in this country.

It started with SID when they privatised the might British Gas Corporation and it has gone down hill since then with so many corporate fingers in the pie trying to make a buck out of their little piece of the carcass.

Think about how big The British Isles are. Not that big really? So why do we need so many different companies owning tiny bits of infrastructure?

In the gas industry we have

people who buy gas wholesale
Gas suppliers/shipper
Gas transporters
Someone owning some pipes
Someone owning other bits of pipe
Someone owning meters
Someone working on meters
Someone reading meters
Someone mending leaks
Someone mending appliances

the list goes on..

In the good old days we had the mighty British Gas Corporation. A National industry owning and operating the whole lot of it.
If something needed mending,you rang them
If you had a leak,you rang them

They had the power to explore,drill for,buy ,distribute and even export gas. Because they had the whole market they could invest in the best training,the best infrastructure,the best research and development in the whole world.

They actually subsidised a lot of their operations.

You could get a gas supply and meter to your house for free
You got your leaks fixed for free up to a certain time limit
pensioners and the sick got free or cheap appliance inspections and servicing for winter
Those with difficulties in handling got free appliance adaptations i,e bigger knobs etc (ooerr missus)

And a host of other things.

Now what are we left with?