Electricity prices getting silly

The Electricity companies are now owned by European companies including State owned interests, its about getting the maximum amount of our currency out of us and thats it.
Overseas governments would stop a UK buyer from taking over their water , gas and power because its an important infrastructure, they wont even let other close European countries do it, which has been evidenced in the blocking by some countries of others in electricity deals recently.
They are going to dump their old fuel rods in the UK now because they own us and those high up will take the perks and shut up because they will be passed on with old age before the harm and damage starts to show.
The new massive overhead lines are being put up and are all about getting the power to the coast for undersea cables, the deals are done at the high levels and anybody standing in the way will probablyregret it, thats my 2 credits worth

Use plain statistics. Use real numbers. Use valuable information. Electricity prices in pounds per kilowatt hour in january: from 1996 was 0.0876 to 2007 was 0.1254.

Yorgi, you have some gall don't you, reduced energy prices for people on benefits, who will pay for this?

Why of course me, and all the other taxpayers who are already struggling to pay their own sky high energy bills,

Our kids have to eat sandwiches at school, whilst the on benefits kids get a lovely school dinner free, paid for by the taxpayers, (over 50% at some schools) and the workers kids have to sit and watch the non workers kids tuck in,

Not to mention free dental treatment, I can't afford to go there regularly because through taxation, I have to pay the treatment costs for those who could work but don't, I am usually the only one in the waiting room paying,

My gripe is not against the elderly or disabled, but against the ever increasing amount of people who could go to work, but don't, give them a pedal powered generator to make their own.

why are we the most expensive country in the world when it comes to energy prices in both gas and elecric also our petrol prices. why do you think nearly all our energy companys are owned by foreign companys. i'll tell you why becase britains people are to soft we allow foreign companys to take over so they can get a bigger profit from us. and why do all companys not give reduced rates to people who are on benefits or elderly people or disabled people as well. why do prepay customers get peanalised for having pre pay meters why pay higher rates when you pay in advance they arn't all bad payers but if prices wern't so high we probably wouldn't need them.

hi everyone

i know im not in the same boat as everyone here im 18 just moved from home by myself in a huge flat, when I got my first wave of bills I founds out they were for the old owner so I waited for the next month for the threatning letters, then called them and said im the new tenant, then they snet another bill then the next threanting letters then I called and asked for a payment plan bby the time they sent it set everyithing up and all that they sent another letter saying wheres our money then it was 69 months at time to leave the flat I owed over 2000 GBP in bills in 6 months and didnt pay they have never had a trace on me find another place and use a false anme for the rent and bills they wont find you.

ps as for severn trent water I have a friend who works there and he has told me stuff aboyt the company and its weakness email me on kartaizne@yahoo.co.uk

take care

dont pay the crooked companies tey make more nad more every year raise there prices and they will never lower them

With gas and electric going up an enormous amount again why do shops and the like still have all their lights and heaters blazing away wasting enegy 24/7 365 days per year the bill for heat going out of the door must be astronomical.

Pubs which now cater for the smoker (masses of manufacturing cost and lit up cigerette displays,but thats another story) wasting energy on patio heaters and infra-red lights to keep the smoker warm but they are happy to walk the streets without heat,come on landlords do your bit and save yourself some money.

Why do we need lit up road signs when we have headlights?

Simon, I forgot the dryer that consumes electricity, eletric stove, name it. Where the heck is the British pound symbol?

My God, Simon S! Are you for real?

My two storey brick house with 6 bedrooms, so on, so on, with an electric fireplace (plus a conventional fireplace), washing and dish-washing machines, a hot water tank running daily all year round, PCs - I can go on.

My last TWO MONTHLY (we are billed 6 times a year) Ontario hydro bill (water and light) averages C$170 (95 GBP) or roughly 1.60 GBP a day during these winter months with minus 6C through minus 24C subzero temperatures.

I find your predicament appalling and unimaginable. How do people in Britain survive? Now you got me thinking.

When are the people of Britain going to wake up to the fact that they have been had? Had all round by the Government, their employers, their pension funds, the builders, estate agents, overpriced housing, immigration, falling pound, jerry-built homes, religion, I could go on and on forever.

It seems to me that your home is probably an end of terrace or standalone house on the top of a hill exposed to East and expose to the cold fronts from Russia in winter. That your house was built on the cheap by an incompetent builder: during the 1950s, 1960s or 1970s. It's got no insulation. It never had any. It's technically an uninhabitable house. It ought to be zero rated for Council tax purposes, value nothing - zilch zero. It's only fit for demolition. It's not worth anything.

Do you really think they would allow your house to be built in Scandinavia? No way Jose

Move downstairs. Buy a mobile electric storage heater. Shoot two polar beard make yourself some fur coats.

Nice to here this, I live in a two up two down cottage and my electric bill was £680 for 3 months, My house is freezing and we must keep one room warm, I have read the metre for one day's electic and it is £10,that's £70 a week and they say there is nothing wrong with that, how are you suppose to pay these sort of amounts?

Kay Jessica,

Here's a site that you might find interesting called Saving Stuff - www.savingstuff.co.uk

Loads of tips for saving money on energy, phone bills, fuel for your car etc. In these times we need every little bit of help we can get to save a few pence here and there.

Emma M, Really, children aren't a luxury, they are a neccesity. Without them there is no point, but they are proflocate with electricity.

As for electricity costs, well yes they are getting out of control but we all waste so much. I recently baught a gadget from a well known electronics store that tells me minute by minute how much juice I'm using. I can tell you now, it opened my eyes. Just thaving chargers and low power DC power supplies for telephones, PC speaker etc plugged in and NOT with a phone/device on charge or speakers switched on was drawing constantly over 100 Watts. Thats over a Kilowatt hour per day doing nothing. Add the standby items like the TV, DVD, Video and that dreaded Settop TV box and I add another 150 watts and they are not even on yet. Add the fridge and freazer and the internet modem etc and I get a whopping base load of around 5 Killowatt hours per day. Oh and the Central heating boiler doing nothing draws a constant 14 watts. Thats all adds upto over 150 Killowatt hours per month (450 per quater) . And I am not doing any thing yet!