Are there too many gas & electricity choices?

Kyser_Soze

I think the companies rely on the wide array of tariffs to deliberately confuse the issue. Privatisation was sold to the consumer as a market utopia where choice would force down prices and improve service. What we have ended up with is higher prices, no matter how much you search for the cheapest deal prices have proportionately increased and poor customer service regularly reported in the national media.

Not that I'm bitter but, i dived in with everyone else and bought £100 of electric shares to join the Conservatives' grand public ownership scheme. These were then forcibly bought from me when SEEBoard was taken over by another company.

It does seem a bit risky that our national infrastructure is owned by offshore companies. Especially given the state of the global economy. Remember, all those profits are your money leaving the country, they could be being ploughed back into the industry, used by the Government to pay the national debt or even used to make prices cheaper. These companies are not in it for altruistic motives and they are already carving up the NHS to their own advantage.

I wonder if the Europhiles realise that if we upset the European mainland too much, the lights can go out and the trains can stop running?

Time for a lie down I think.

tagq2

Wait, I get to choose who supplies my mains gas and electricity now? I wondered what they were doing digging up the road...

Oh, it's just another bit of regulation on who runs the software to generate a PDF of my bill and how much they get to charge for the privilege. Tomorrow's been today for a while, and it belongs to unproductive middlemen.

paranoidpete

VoucherMan wrote: »

Leave it like it is.

So long as there are mugs out there happy to pay over the odds the rest of us may be able to get a better deal

i agree if people are to lazy to do a bit of work to find the best deal they deserve to have to pay more,
it is just like looking for the bargains while you are shopping.

stevemcol

paranoidpete wrote: »

i agree if people are to lazy to do a bit of work to find the best deal they deserve to have to pay more,
it is just like looking for the bargains while you are shopping.

Providing help is given to less internet savvy consumers, pensioners etc who often have the greatest need of cheaper energy.