BG to charge line rental for your gas/electricity

puregeordie

Thought that would get your attention,

I'm not sure if its been dicussed before but I have no idea why BT charge line rental so its a sobering thought if/when these utility companies start to charge you pipe rental for our pipes into house and electrical cable rental for electricity.

I have no idea why we also accept we have to pay BT line rental to maintain a line when these other companies don't charge to maintain pipes/electrical cables into house? or do they.

food for thought, cheers.

sheffield_lad

puregeordie wrote: »

Thought that would get your attention,

I'm not sure if its been dicussed before but I have no idea why BT charge line rental so its a sobering thought if/when these utility companies start to charge you pipe rental for our pipes into house and electrical cable rental for electricity.

I have no idea why we also accept we have to pay BT line rental to maintain a line when these other companies don't charge to maintain pipes/electrical cables into house? or do they.

food for thought, cheers.

I am surprised I am the first to let you in to the awful secret that you already do pay for the distribution of your gas/lecci in your prices aprox 17% of your bill.


Then again this should be good news it's already included

ic

Standing Charge = Line Rental...

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays

We've landed on the moon?!

Wail

Wait until the OP finds out about IGT's.

societys_child

Wail wrote: »

Wait until the OP finds out about IGT's.

Inter Galactic Tramlines?

C_Mababejive

Of course BT charge line rental because they have had to run a pair of wires all the way from your home to the exchange. A considerable feat ! They also have to maintain it along with lots of other pairs and power it up with new fangled 'lectric.

puregeordie

sheffield_lad wrote: »

I am surprised I am the first to let you in to the awful secret that you already do pay for the distribution of your gas/lecci in your prices aprox 17% of your bill.


Then again this should be good news it's already included

:wall: what a nugget I am, !!

thenudeone

Many of the costs of getting utilities or communications to you are the same regardless of how much you use - (pipes & cables don't wear out any faster if you are a high user!) so it's not surprising that companies try to create a price structure which matches their cost structure.

That is quite reasonable, but it can be unpopular.

However, people are [STRIKE]stupid[/STRIKE] easy to fool. Until recently, most utility companies offered "NO STANDING CHARGE" tariffs, but charged a higher rate per unit for the first xxxx units per quarter, which usually meant that fixed costs were recovered anyway, but people THOUGHT they weren't paying a fixed charge.

Anyway, ofgem decided that these multi rate tariffs were too confusing for the [STRIKE]stupid [/STRIKE]public and banned them, resulting in nearly every utility company deciding that every tariff will now have a standing charge.

If you don't want to pay for the fixed costs of running a distribution network and running cables and pipes to your house, just buy a generator, jerry cans of petrol, and some bottled gas, then you can rest assured that all of your costs (after buying the generator) are truly variable.