£50 off my energy bill

What do you think about this ?

 

Less than a £1 a week, I'll make sure I dont spend it all at once

 

But then again, its better than putting it up £1 a week.

 

But they've already done that! (I lie, they've put them up by over £2/week)

 

Typical con, reduce the energy bill by £1 per week per home
Advise that instead of the energy company adding the £1, the Gov would pay it now through taxes
So previous £1 pw per home extra
Now a working family of four are paying £1 pw EACH in tax, giving the Gov four times what they were previously paying OUT :-)

Jack McH

 

It's a big con because all the energy companies (apart from British gas) have announced they will not be passing on the savings to all the millions of customers on fixed price deals and will pocket the savings themselves, further increasing their profits.

 

How many people are now out of fuel poverty becuse of the savings

 

Not nearly as many as the millions who'll be taken out of fuel poverty by the government's proposal to change the definition of it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/02/fuel-poverty-cheat_n_4370866.html

 

Well, they can't expect to have it both ways, surely?
The whole point of a "fixed price" deal is the understanding that prices can increase and decrease.

 

There's 2 types of "fixed price" contracts and one allows changes in government levies, etc. to be adjusted.

Do you believe that if the government introduced a flat rate lump sum levy of say £75 per household to be slapped on the end of fuel bills that the energy suppliers wouldn't add it to 'fixed price' bills?

 

I'll put a link on the meter for free electric and I'll rob them as they are robbing us.
I live next door to a elderly lady and her daughter asked me if I would fetch her bed down into her living room, so she wouldn't have to heat the entire house.
And the bad weather isn't here yet