MSE News: Is British Gas about to raise energy prices?

ollski

sillygoose wrote: »

A bit harsh, the guy is scraping along on £38,000 a week so he feels our pain too, thats 0.004% of his weekly salary he has to find elsewhere now, give him a break!

I very much doubt anything about Phil Bentleys house is 'average' especially not his utility bills.

Lube

I think sillygoose was being sarcastic

ollski wrote: »

I very much doubt anything about Phil Bentleys house is 'average' especially not his utility bills.

Cookandy

I'm puzzled now. Martin has just been on Radio 2 telling us all that we should grab a fixed deal today while we can get one. But I'm on E-on and their price is fixed until the end of December so if I fix now for 12 months I'm doing myself out of 3 months next year?

What should I do? Surely I can still fix later in the year, E-on have always got a fixed plan available. If I was with one of the others I would fix now but is there any point for me? Help!!

tVoR

sillygoose wrote: »

So why don't the government grow some and nationalise it, then force it to sell as a small profit organisation, the others can go bust for all we care...

Oh I forgot, good old Europe wouldn't like that, anticompetitive policy. Funny whenever you look at the problems in this country, inextricably its causes always leads back to Europe in some way.

Lol, this is brilliant.
1. We are one of the few countries in Europe with an open residential energy market - France, Germany etc all still nationalised
2. It was that horrible pro-Euro Thatcher that privatised it all
3. We have the cheapest per unit rates in Europe (mainly down to heavy regulation - I'm not pro free-market)

It's all Jonny foreigners' fault!

P.s. sorry if you were being ironic

Wywth

Cookandy wrote: »

I'm puzzled now. Martin has just been on Radio 2 telling us all that we should grab a fixed deal today while we can get one. But I'm on E-on and their price is fixed until the end of December so if I fix now for 12 months I'm doing myself out of 3 months next year?

What should I do? Surely I can still fix later in the year, E-on have always got a fixed plan available. If I was with one of the others I would fix now but is there any point for me? Help!!

I didn't hear the programme, but are you sure he was not referring to those who were not currently on a fixed deal to go and grab one?

e.g. those 8.5 million customers who are on a variable tariff supplied by BG?

penrhyn

Here is a surprise:-

Sky News Newsdesk ‏@SkyNewsBreak Energy company npower announces it is raising prices by an average of 8.8% for gas and 9.1% for electricity from 26th November

I_luv_cats

Why do the energy companies have to follow like sheep?

If the energy companies were already cutting their own throat with their margins, it shouldn't have to take another companies price announcement for them to jump on the bandwagon!

All looks suspicious.

(also posted on the npower thread)

Antispam

It same with some Telecom companies too now. The way they seem to want to make money probably from loosing revenue to mobiles for calls is increase line rental

I_luv_cats wrote: »

Why do the energy companies have to follow like sheep?

If the energy companies were already cutting their own throat with their margins, it shouldn't have to take another companies price announcement for them to jump on the bandwagon!

All looks suspicious.

(also posted on the npower thread)

macman

Cookandy wrote: »

I'm puzzled now. Martin has just been on Radio 2 telling us all that we should grab a fixed deal today while we can get one. But I'm on E-on and their price is fixed until the end of December so if I fix now for 12 months I'm doing myself out of 3 months next year?

What should I do? Surely I can still fix later in the year, E-on have always got a fixed plan available. If I was with one of the others I would fix now but is there any point for me? Help!!

It's not about fixing. it's about fixing at a decent rate. All the decent cheap fixes are long gone now. Martin has been advising people to fix for about 3 months, not just this morning.
Use a comp site with your annual kWh figures to find the best deal for you.

I_luv_cats

Antispam wrote: »

It same with some Telecom companies too now. The way they seem to want to make money probably from loosing revenue to mobiles for calls is increase line rental

It's like that with the Supermarkets too as some prices seem to track each other.

I guess with the Supermarket we can go without if we don't like the price BUT with energy we will always need to use some to keep us going.




Are energy companies just getting in there with their price rises because they can as surely they are buying their energy in advance @ a different frequency n price.