England home of big bills

[STEED]

What is the matter with us all in England, bills are going up and up and all we do is shrug are shoulder as to suggest what can you do. We should all kick up a real big stink, the way things are going we are all going to be in deep trouble. It's bad enough the consumers own over one trillion pounds, thanks to in part to this Labour Government suggesting spend your way out of recession.

U.K. gas consumers hit with big bills

Big News Network.com
Friday 28th July, 2006 (UPI)

Millions of natural gas users in Britain are groaning under skyrocketing prices that are rising at their fastest rates in half a century.

The Daily Telegraph, citing government data, reports that in the past year alone, the price of gas has shot up by more than a third or by about $262 a year for a standard home.

Meanwhile, British Gas, the country's largest supplier, plans to raise rates by 12.4 percent for gas and 9.4 percent for electricity for its more than 10 million customers beginning in September, the report said, adding the hike is the company's fifth since 2004. Similar hikes are expected from other energy companies, the Daily Telegraph said.

Economists warn such rising utility bills and gasoline prices combined with record levels of public debt could damage the economy, the report said.

This is a fairly significant squeeze on people's disposable income. People are already heavily indebted and unemployment is rising, one expert told the newspaper. Rises in the number of bankruptcies show that consumers are very sensitive to small shocks.

An Ernst & Young report says people have 10 percent less money for discretionary spending from five years ago.


http://www.britainnews.net/story/d440278ad9c363e2

[Kapitan]

happiest people on earth are the homeless

Now i know why!

[Spoon 11th]

In Sweden they build zero-energy houses that don't need heating other than the body heat of the people living in those houses. This is no joke. The houses are so well insulated and have big windows facing south to use suns energy that no external heating source is required.

Yeah and british homes are really crappy with single windows and such. No wonder people use electrically heated blankets, which I find hilarious.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Spoon 11th

In Sweden they build zero-energy houses that don't need heating other than the body heat of the people living in those houses. This is no joke. The houses are so well insulated and have big windows facing south to use suns energy that no external heating source is required.

Yeah and British homes are really crappy with single windows and such. No wonder people use electrically heated blankets, which I find hilarious.

That's what you think. A couple of years ago, they just finished building an area of those house type outside glumslov(about ten kilometers from where I live) and It's a hell for those who lives there. Last winter, who was extreme, they froze their pants of. And last summer who was hot as this they where living in a sauna.

I tell you that those houses have a huge turnover.

And one more thing but not less important. The air inside the house/department is circulation, so when a person with a bad stomach has been on the toilet you can.....puhh


Markus

[bradclark1]

That's already happening/happened in the U.S. Natural gas went up one third last year. Electric went up something like 23% in my state and it's supposed to be going up again. When one raises they all raise.

[lesrae]

I live in the middle of an area surrounded by stone quarries - so no mains gas


Electricity prices suxxor though