British Gas Profits

[Bonnyboy]

Originally Posted by emamum23

i am amazed my how much gas costs!! My new house has a prepayment meter and i am putting £20 a week in and i only use it at night and switch it off when i go to bed...

Ema, have the meter checked as keetah advised.I have been paying £25 p/month for gas, ended up being £76 in credit in less than 12 months from joining new supplier. Direct Debit now reduced to £20. The central heating is set for 21C ( so it’s generally on, even if only low ) flick it up every night after tea. We cook on gas and the shower/hot water runs directly from the boiler (4 showers had per day between us ) Something must be amiss if you are paying per week what I pay per month….Get the meter checked

[cmonstanley]

the goverment dont own the oil its the oil companies and i bet they dont declare all of it eitherthatchers cronies stripped this country of its working rights and manufacturing industries and anything else that got in the their way and sold it down the river just for a quick buck and she used the police for her own political ends as well.and that was supposed to be illegal thats what im talking about she stripped this country of any assets it had now most of the utilities industries are owned by foreign shareholders...who just want profit profit profit in their back pocket...

[andrewb]

Originally Posted by cmonstanley

the goverment dont own the oil its the oil companies and i bet they dont declare all of it eitherthatchers cronies stripped this country of its working rights and manufacturing industries and anything else that got in the their way and sold it down the river just for a quick buck and she used the police for her own political ends as well.and that was supposed to be illegal thats what im talking about she stripped this country of any assets it had now most of the utilities industries are owned by foreign shareholders...who just want profit profit profit in their back pocket...

Can you give me a link that evidences private companies owning the oil?

[harwood red]

If you use a pre payment meter it is worth looking into EBICo as they are a not for profit supplier who charge the same across the board with no standing charges.

Through my work I have learnt that with prepayment meters you can turn all the supplies off to the property and the meter still takes money due to the standing charge...with EBICo there is no standing charge, so if you don't use it, you don't get charged...

it can save some people money on quartley meters but not always due to most suppliers doing deals for quartley meters that EBICo can't match but this is not the case for pre payment

[cmonstanley]

there,s shell bp and other private companies/. the goverment only tax it..the only country that owns 40% of its own production and thats norway..and th largest company in the northsea is first oil who are a private company.ive found an interesting link that could be britain on the way to be a third world country unless we find an alternative fuel for energy.. The shocking truth about North Sea oil - Money Week

[jaysay]

Watching News 24 this morning there is another slant on British Gas come to light. A old chap had is cental heating boiler serviced, and the BG engineer condemned it and disconected it so it could not be used. BG then gave the chap a price for replacement and upgrading which was £3,950 aprox, the guy complained about the price but was told it was right, so with the wreather being cold he told them to do the job. His son went made and contacted 20 central heating firms and got a prise, the average was £1,650, is it any wonder they made so much profit. Age Concern say that this is not an isolated case

[WalkOnBRFC]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Watching News 24 this morning there is another slant on British Gas come to light. A old chap had is cental heating boiler serviced, and the BG engineer condemned it and disconected it so it could not be used. BG then gave the chap a price for replacement and upgrading which was £3,950 aprox, the guy complained about the price but was told it was right, so with the wreather being cold he told them to do the job. His son went made and contacted 20 central heating firms and got a prise, the average was £1,650, is it any wonder they made so much profit. Age Concern say that this is not an isolated case

If it's true, that is shocking. Maybe it is about time Ofgem got involved but where have they been over the past few years when they were making record profits then too. Then again I can't say much as I work for United Utilities

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by WalkOnBRFC

If it's true, that is shocking. Maybe it is about time Ofgem got involved but where have they been over the past few years when they were making record profits then too. Then again I can't say much as I work for United Utilities

Good grief lass you shouldn't have mentioned that on here, there even less popular than Britcliffe

[Acrylic-bob]

Originally Posted by WalkOnBRFC

Maybe it is about time Ofgem got involved but where have they been over the past few years when they were making record profits then too.

Probably the same place as the Competition Commission while the big four supermarkets were decimating the high street and pricing farmers out of business.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Probably the same place as the Competition Commission while the big four supermarkets were decimating the high street and pricing farmers out of business.

Good point. In the future, when all our food is supplied by one of only a very few supermarkets, they'll have us over a barrel, and will be able to charge us whatever prices they like.

Less a free market economy, and more like a Victorian town, where the mill workers were forced to spend their hard earned wages in the shop owned by the mill owner.

[derekgas]

That is not all British gas stitch you up with, there heating, servicing and breakdown insurance is the most expensive, they don't do a 'service' now, rather an 'inspection' which means exactly what it says, they look at the appliance, nothing taken apart and cleaned as it should be, the breakdown insurance is supposed to have an annual 'inspection' included, but it went from 12 monthly, to 13 or 14 monthly, then eventually to the point where you have to ring THEM, or you don't get the inspection, they can get out of any repair, will tell you your boiler/fire is obsolete just because it isn't made anymore, don't tell you the parts will be available for years to come, I know a lady in accrington who got £560 'hush money' because she sussed them out. (she had help from somebody to suss them, don't know who )

[WalkOnBRFC]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Good grief lass you shouldn't have mentioned that on here, there even less popular than Britcliffe

We can't be perfect all the time

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by WalkOnBRFC

We can't be perfect all the time

You speak for yourself Walkon

[WalkOnBRFC]

Originally Posted by jaysay

You speak for yourself Walkon

Naturally I didn't mean myself just the company Lol

[derekgas]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Watching News 24 this morning there is another slant on British Gas come to light. A old chap had is cental heating boiler serviced, and the BG engineer condemned it and disconected it so it could not be used. BG then gave the chap a price for replacement and upgrading which was £3,950 aprox, the guy complained about the price but was told it was right, so with the wreather being cold he told them to do the job. His son went made and contacted 20 central heating firms and got a prise, the average was £1,650, is it any wonder they made so much profit. Age Concern say that this is not an isolated case

And I bet the original boiler was ok, the engineers are paid commission, and there computer shows a 'no longer made' boiler as obsolete, even though the parts are available in many cases.