Energy and competition

pqrdef

It's OK folks, SuperDave is on the case now. I expect an eye-catching initiative that he can bang on about at PMQs but which won't make any difference. Huhne is presumably on the way out.

wymondham

pqrdef wrote: »

It's OK folks, SuperDave is on the case now. I expect an eye-catching initiative that he can bang on about at PMQs but which won't make any difference. Huhne is presumably on the way out.

Yes i saw this...... why bother saying to switch suppliers, when you look at their prices over the last year or so they have been pretty much in tandem - it just depends when you switch (in between one rising and others being slower). They deliberately confuse and with and ineffective regulator being ....... well a tad useless our hands are a bit tied. I don't see the point in changing supplier for a saving of £20 a year ... do you???

sheffield_lad

wymondham wrote: »

Yes i saw this...... why bother saying to switch suppliers, when you look at their prices over the last year or so they have been pretty much in tandem - it just depends when you switch (in between one rising and others being slower). They deliberately confuse and with and ineffective regulator being ....... well a tad useless our hands are a bit tied. I don't see the point in changing supplier for a saving of £20 a year ... do you???

Depends if your on an online tariff and if you pay by DD if you don't and you either ring your current supplier or switch to a new supplier on their online deal will save you around £200 per year depending on usage.

The reality though is 90% of the costs have zero to do with profits/shareholders/fat cats its the price of natural resources which with 7 billion of us all wanting our bit have been forced up and its not going to change we need to start getting used to it.

grizzly1911

howee wrote: »

ummm, re-nationalise and have public sector workers back in there! More strikes, more greedy unions wanting the bloke who who reads the meter to be on the same as a qualified engineer? More stupid pension arrangements (hey instead of taking it from your tax they could simply add it to your bill!), more inefficiency, more days sick? less investment and yes more power cuts?

Errrr no thanks

oh and as everyone (inc the one's who need spoon feeding), on one tariff so we all pay more?

again no thanks

Or we can just have obscene profits being made and paid away to foreign owners, sucking our money out of the UK. Fat cat pay to greedy executives who are driven by short term profit.

And rather than a few shrewd people like us constantly hoping from one company to another, adding a hundred pound a year to our bills in unnecessary administration charges and switching rebates through money supermarket et al we could all pay a sensible single price. I don't see why I should pay more if I don't want to pay by MDDR, as long as I pay promptly either.

Also a lot of older people tend to be the ones that don't switch who can least afford it. Even the old persons tariffs such as EON charge them more whilst pretending to be tailor made for their needs.

the_flying_pig

Well worth attempting to shop around although I agree that there are at least ten times the number of tariffs that a person can sensibly compare.

People can be daft about stuff - will spend weeks agonising over which five hundred quid TV [useful life at least five yrs] to buy but will spend no time at all thinking about which grand a year [every year time and again] energy tariff to buy.