Well that's Scottish power putting up gas by 19% and electricity by
10% on the 1st of Aug.I'm sure the rest will do the same soon. I'm with them for the leccy but with Scottish/British gas for the gas.Seemingly wholesale prices are to "blame".I'll be huddling round a candle with a blanket over me in the winter.Obviously up here our energy costs are higher due to colder weather
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I couldn't believe it when I read it - and it won't take the others long to raise theirs the same 
I'm fed up of being a cash cow for foreign owned companies whilst our Government sit back and twiddle their thumbs - even the proposed nuclear electric plants are gonna be run by the French.
What exactly has opening the energy industry to 'competition' got the ordinary person on the street? Nothing - we can't even switch to a cheaper supplier because they are all lining their pockets with the same rates
Gets off very high horse 
Centrica who own British Gas warned a month ago that gas and electricity prices were likely to be increased, and I think you are right that the other suppliers will announce similar increases in the next few weeks. OFGEN now require all power suppliers to give their customers at least 30 days notice of any increase.
I couldn't believe it when I read it - and it won't take the others long to raise theirs the same
I'm fed up of being a cash cow for foreign owned companies whilst our Government sit back and twiddle their thumbs - even the proposed nuclear electric plants are gonna be run by the French.
What exactly has opening the energy industry to 'competition' got the ordinary person on the street? Nothing - we can't even switch to a cheaper supplier because they are all lining their pockets with the same rates
Gets off very high horse
Indeed, well that's 30+ years of the Thatcherite consensus for you. The Tories shouldn't have flogged them off to pay for mass unemployment and Labour (IIRC) shouldn't have let foreigners buy large stakes. That's this country for you. It's hard to believe it can be in so much debt when both the Tories and Labour seemingly have tried so hard to keep the coffers full - at the long term detriment to the ordinary British citizen.
Oh yea I remember those sell off of British nationalised owned gas ads."Tell Sid!"
Well if you have duel fuel with that company thats 50p a day increase.Doesn't sound much until you tally it up to a quarterly bill.
We use heating oil.. the price of it has been escalating at a truly horrible rate for the past 18 months or so.
We actually spent most of last winter without heating!!
This is going to have a huge impact on everyone. Everything from fuel, food, insurance etc is bad enough, but we can (to some extent) do something about those. In a harsh Scottish winter (like the last two) wearing an extra sweater just wouldn't do it! And people on fixed incomes are going to feel it more than most.
When are we going to rebel????
We need a Che Guavara of summat. (Sp?)
I read in the press that a lot of folk are just as badly off as they were in the seventies.Cost wise their wages are stagnant, even lower.However the rich are raking it in.Guess who the Tories are targeting!
Have you noticed......it's always in the summer they hike their prices. You don't use as much fuel during the summer months and therefore they think they are conning you 
I didn't word that properly but I think you know what I mean - . Sort of cushioning the blow
