http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7533389.stm
What I found typical, was the statement: "With immediate effect".
When/if the prices fall, it would be months before the cuts were passed on. Market forces or not, what blatant, profiteering hypocrisy.
Source(s).
Greed.
Are you for real?? how is it that we in Britain are paying 1.45 for a litre of diesel at the pump and over the pond it’s still (and it is STILL) ridiculously cheaper than what we pay!!!
fuel for thought…
I always thought you English just don’t need as much of it… The US is a land of wide open spaces where many of us have to cover greater distances to get to work or school and there is virtually no public transportation here… The poorest among us have to make do with the used second hand vehicles from those who are better off, most of which don’t get very good gas mileage.
We live in a society that’s been corrupted by oil barons… I would much rather our society be set up so that I didn’t even have to own a car, however that is not the case, so no car = no job = nothing to eat and no place ot live.
I live in the uk and want to join the army but i am behind in rent gas and council tax payments, Would i be able to join ?
As part of the Security Check, the Defence Vetting Agency run a credit check with Experian.
Besides having monthly outgoings below 50% of projected net monthly income, defaulted payments, unresolved CCJs & undischarged bankrupty are a potential bar to entry.
The advice is to address these issues prior to applying & providing outgoings are within acceptable parameters & creditors are willing to provide a letter of satisfaction, the application can be processed.
Individuals with large debts can, in desperation, become security risks because they may choose to sell information to the "ill disposed" or sell stories to the press, borrow off friends & neglect to pay back, or even possibly turn to theft to help pay debts. People who have financial problems that have not been addressed invariably have issues that need to be resolved before they join – this doesn’t mean the debt must be fully repaid but it means it needs to be responsibly managed within acceptable limits by the debtor to to satisfaction of the creditor & the service.
In other words don’t bury your head in the sand- talk to people, get it under control.
When applying to join you just need to be honest & as long as you are addressing the problems, then that is all that can be asked.
hope this makes sense 
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I am currently with Npower and very disappointed with their service (shambolic debit system, poor customer service etc…). Who should I switch my account to? Who would you recommend and why?
And can I have a serious answer please…
http://www.moneysupermarket.com
Go to this site, click compare gas and electricity, input your postcode and search.
When you get your results there are loads of customer reviews that should help with your decision
Australia does. Why doesn’t the UK?
Or do they secretly use methane to fuel power stations without telling us? Basically, could they easily be making energy and money from our own waste and not telling us?
South Thames sewage works has its own generator which used methane gas from sewage.
We are currently paying two hundred pounds a month and we don’t use anymore gas than any other average family of Two adults and one young child?
thats too much x4…we live in a 3 bed ..semi ..wifes at home so use a fair bit …we do not pay £40 per month average …if its your own home then there is soimething wrong with meter …if it rented accomadation then you are being ripped off ..i doubt if you could get a £200 bill in a month if you left it on 24×7…
What are the problems with this as we must have vast deposits under the UK.
It has already been tried.
There are indeed vast quantities of coal remaining under the UK, all of which is gassy to a greater or lesser extent. To get the gas ("coalbed methane") out, you have to drill a number of wells and then pump. The gas, which is adsorbed onto the coal, moves out under depletion of pressure via cleats or natural fractures in the coal. As the coals are usually below the aquifer, you have to pump a great deal of potentially-contaminated water out before getting the gas to flow, and this can cause pollution if the water is dumped in nearby rivers. There are also a lot of planning restrictions in the UK that restrict where you can drill. To my knowledge, the technique has not yet proved commercial in the UK.
In the USA, where environmental and planning restrictions are less onerous, the technique has been very successful in the mid-West. I think that the geology is much more favourable there; in Europe the coals (Carboniferous ones) have been subject to several phases of tectonic uplift and degassification which makes the remaining gas more difficult to extract.
Of course, coals do de-gassify naturally in coal mines, as testified by gas explosions in the past. People have tried to extract the gas via pumping air in and out of mines, both used and disused, but I think the amounts of gas actually recovered are quites small. You have to then seperate the gas from the air, and also have to keep the mine pumped free of water , both of which make the technique generally sub-commercial, in the UK at any rate.
OK, you can also make gas artificially out of coal, by heating it in vats, which is the old-fashioned way of doing it before the discovery of natural North Sea gas. This would be potentially feasible should there be sufficient nearby mineable reserves. However, the gas is of a poorer quality than the North-Sea variety, and would necessitate the wholesale changeover of boilers, cookers and pipework at huge cost (they already had to do this once when they switched to North Sea gas in the early 1970s). Also the environmental impact (aside from the coal mining) is horrendous. The by products include cyanide, heavy metals (arsenic), sulphides and phenolic tars. Many former coal gasworks sites in the UK are still unuseable and derelict today due to this sort of contamination.
Hi !
I am currently with Npower in for both my gas and electric supply.
As you know, Npower announced last week that they are about to increase their prices, so therefore I am looking to change supplier.
Could anyone give me some good recommendations ?
Someone has informed me that both Atlantic Power and Scottish Power are worth a look.
All answers and advice is appreciated
Suggest waiting for your next account,for up to date charges.With this info;contact U-switch,they’ll talk through all the options.
Recently I am in receipt of an employment offer with good package with out facing any kind of interview What should I do ? because their Traveling Agent demanded lumpsum amount for feeses with UK Embassy ? Is it worth opting/accepting the offer ?
It is a SCAM
Why would anyone give you a job with out ever meeting you ?
Did you apply for a job with them ?
Delete the e-mail and forget it.
Just wondering if it is only the UK where we have had massive price rises for residential customers and have been warned that we will be paying £1600 per year for electricity and gas in the home.
We pay more Tax on our bills though, ( VAT ) and thats to do with the British Government only,
Our fuel at the pumps, is far higher than the rest of Europe because of the Tax the British Government puts on a litre of Petrol,
The British are Taxed to Death,
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