47kg Propane Calor Gas Prices - What are you paying?

A._Badger

The best price I can get here (Kent) is £72 for a 47kg FloGas.

It's high time the bottled gas racket was investigates by the CMA (they seem to be investigating every other trade!). In effect you have no choice and the prices seem to be rocketing up with little relationship to wholesale prices.

frugalstephen

Good luck with that, I've reported the issue with CMA more than once, they're not interested...

fewkeste

A._Badger wrote: »

The best price I can get here (Kent) is £72 for a 47kg FloGas.

It's high time the bottled gas racket was investigates by the CMA (they seem to be investigating every other trade!). In effect you have no choice and the prices seem to be rocketing up with little relationship to wholesale prices.

What a rip-off!

It's got to be worth a call or an email I would have thought. Also, it occurs to me that possibly the BBC Panorama or Channel 4's Dispatches program teams might be interested in doing a feature.

It seems that once national TV takes an interest in a topic, previously reluctant agencies suddenly get off their backsides and do something

stubuy

Please take the time to read my previous post before you make accusations and think about going to tv programmes.

frugalstephen

stubuy wrote: »

Please take the time to read my previous post before you make accusations and think about going to tv programmes.

Rookie mistake! This thread runs to 23 pages, no one is going to read more than the last 2 to 3 posts, or care less whatever anyone has written before. This is how the internet works. That's why tweetface' limits to 140 characters - the modern fashion is for a quick 'soundbite', not an in depth analysis. No one cares about anyone's opinion apart from their own - get use to it...:beer:

A._Badger

stubuy wrote: »

Please take the time to read my previous post before you make accusations and think about going to tv programmes.

I can't speak for anyone else but I certainly read your original post when it first appeared. It made me angry enough not to comment at all, for fear of being really offensive.

All industries face their particular and peculiar problems (the one I work in very much included) so let's skip the special pleading. The question is why there has been a massive price hike (again) when the raw material costs simply do not justify it. The answer is because there is effectively no competition to hold prices to a reasonable level.

Mister_G

A._Badger wrote: »

I can't speak for anyone else but I certainly read your original post when it first appeared. It made me angry enough not to comment at all, for fear of being really offensive.

All industries face their particular and peculiar problems (the one I work in very much included) so let's skip the special pleading. The question is why there has been a massive price hike (again) when the raw material costs simply do not justify it. The answer is because there is effectively no competition to hold prices to a reasonable level.

Borne out by the fact that my bulk LPG (the same stuff as goes in the cylinders) has remained at 30ppl for the past 3 1/2 years.

frugalstephen

Mister_G wrote: »

Borne out by the fact that my bulk LPG (the same stuff as goes in the cylinders) has remained at 30ppl for the past 3 1/2 years.

...and the same LPG that fills my car up has been 59p/liter for over 18 months!

stubuy

It is on the last page and I just wondered why some people who are ignorant of some of the important issues surround how their propane magically arrives on their doorstep.

frugalstephen

stubuy wrote: »

It is on the last page and I just wondered why some people who are ignorant of some of the important issues surround how their propane magically arrives on their doorstep.

You mean the same people that don't know where a steak comes from apart from a polystyrene tray at the supermarket, or how a mass produced egg is actually 'produced'? LOL No one cares buddy, if they did, our planet wouldn't be dying,,,