British Gas

[Nige F]

Doing the shyte thing £££££££££ I nominate BOB Dole to be the Pied Piper and lead all their customers away www.uswitch.com

 

[joe-90]

It doesn't stop the bulk price from rising.

I've been saying for years that we have a fuel crisis.

Maybe people will start to listen at last.

 

[Slogger]

gas ?? could we go back to coal gas anyone old enough to know how they made it


if not then roll on nuclear power eh even less jobs for corgi

could this be why CORGI is getting its fingers into electrical and water

 

[joe-90]

Just heat up coal in an oxygen free environment (coke oven) and you get gas and coke. Don't snort it - you'll get a black nose.

 

[Richardp]

British gas was trying to get us to pay them 300 quid for leccy that we knew we didnt owe them, they hassled us like hell and If I was a little old vunerable lady I would probably have paid them but I told them to **** off and we left them for another supplier and guess what? well they found that when they closed our account they owed us over 900 quid.
bastidoes.

 

[empip]

Must be some dosh in this energy supply game.. I changed to AEG last Nov.
Worked out my historical usage both gas and leccy .. I decided to pay £78 pm all in. (u-switch calced more than that but AEG changed to my requested amount)
Now after 8 months my leccy account is +£12 and the Gas -£130, I owe them a net £118 .. this is diminishing as the winter recedes. I reckon to be around the same position on leccy and owing about £30 on gas come Nov.. and 1 year. I then get 8.5% discount - a month free !
The point is, AEG have 6.5 million customers (or is that thier parent group?) anyway, if one third of them, say 2 million are in a similar position then on average we owe £200,000,000 over the year.
That is a fair lump of dosh to have owing without interest... Unless it is peanuts (I doubt that) so is it just poor management?
Quarterly accounts come meter readings, all a bit iffy .. But the dosh in my bank suites me .. AEG remain cheap in comparison to other suppliers, they have not asked for a greater dd payment .... yet.

 

[securespark]

could this be why CORGI is getting its fingers into electrical and water

But, I sincerely hope, not at the same time?

 

[Kes]

Hi,

I love BG. We're on 7.15p a unit for electricity (no gas) fixed until 2010, and free evening/weekend landline calls. That'll do me.

Rgds.

 

[Steve]

Buy a ground source heat pump - half your heating bill in one move, and no more gas bills!

 

[Kes]

Hi,

That is tempting, we're on oil and it's £730 to fill up the tank, which needs filling say 1.5 times a year. We have the acreage, but the heat-pump boilers are very expensive I believe.

Rgds.

 

[Steve]

I did some research earlier, someone said the heat pump unit itself costs £5500 - very expensive. But this could pay for itself within a few years given the current rises in gas prices, and the staggering efficiency of the heat pumps. The unit can be connected like a standard boiler to a radiator and cylinder circuit. You dont need a lot of space for the coil outside either, if space is very limited, they can drill a borehole, or even fit a coil open to the air, like a standard air con unit.

google for "ground source heat pump" with the ""'s. loads of info out there. apparently grants are available.

 

[empip]

Build a Passivhaus .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house#The_standard
Be worth a fortune as energy costs rise... Wll have something extra to offer even when property values fall.

...Particularly significant is that buildings constructed within these limits are able to dispense with conventional heating systems.

The standard will result in a building that requires space heating energy of 1 BTU per square foot per heating degree day compared with about 5 to 15 BTUs per square foot per heating degree day for a similar building built to meet the 2003 Model Energy Efficiency Code. This is between 75 to 95% less energy for space heating and cooling than current new buildings that meet today's US energy efficiency codes...
If a house built to similar Passive House standards uses renewable energy (solar cells, solar thermal energy, wind energy, biofuel or an earth-heat exchanger), it can generate more energy than it uses. Such buildings may be called energy-plus houses...

... Normal houses in the US need 30 times more energy for heating, cooling and hot water than other nations[citation needed]. With these new standards, energy consumption in U.S. households could be reduced by 97%, and overall consumption of the U.S. reduced by 30%[citation needed]...

 

[markie]

I would of call B/G Dick turpin, but Dick Turpin stole to give to the poor,

 

[scatmanjohn]

I did the uswitch thingy and it said that it would cost me a minimum of £132 pa to move from BG to another supplier.

I'll stay put for now me thinks.

 

[Nige F]

I would of call B/G Dick turpin, but Dick Turpin stole to give to the poor,

that was robin Hood