Dunbar's Number · @sabret00the
337 followers · 2185 posts · Server mas.to

How is this not illegal? You prevent my equipment that was working perfectly fine from working and demand money from me for a new one? Isn't that extortion?

#BritishGas #hive

Last updated 1 year ago

MarkusL · @markusl
539 followers · 1421 posts · Server fosstodon.org

@jbenjamint

This has been going on for some time. Twenty years ago, could afford to ring me at home, at work, even on holiday, and they could send bailiffs to my house, but they couldn't send a meter reader to discover that they'd made a mistake and I didn't owe them any money.

@mariafarrell

#BritishGas

Last updated 1 year ago

Bob Jamieson · @bobjmsn
1083 followers · 17846 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Normal Island News

thrilled to announce they have made a killing
In this case, it was quite literally!
British Gas has reported an 889% increase in in the first half of the year, racking up a sensational £969 million! In contrast, British Gas only made £98 million at this point last year. British Gas owner, saw profits rise by a whopping 1,900% to £1.4 billion and Shell made £3.9 billion in just three months.

open.substack.com/pub/normalis

#normalislandnews #Centrica #profits #BritishGas

Last updated 1 year ago

paulb3017 · @paulb3017
49 followers · 590 posts · Server mastodon.scot

I was watching TV a few days ago and saw an advert asking for donations to feed starving children. Seems unimaginable but these starving children live in the UK. In after .

Fast forward a few days and announces profits of £969m, and that's just for six months! An almost 900% increase while children in the UK are starving. Aided and abetted by the most right wing Tory government that's ever been in power, and that includes the Thatcher years. A party for the rich.

#BritishGas #brexit #torybritain

Last updated 1 year ago

Colin H. · @GlasWolf
151 followers · 1305 posts · Server mastodon.scot

I'm old enough to remember when was state-owned. Now it's taking billions from the people who used to own it. If you're a , that's called progress.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home

#tory #BritishGas

Last updated 1 year ago

Jules 🍺 · @julesbl
243 followers · 12415 posts · Server mastodon.me.uk

Petition To Stop Ofgems plan to INCREASE energy supplier profits from Oct 2023 - we plan to fight it @grantshapps @ofgem - Sign the Petition! chng.it/nQQfFLnx via @UKChange

#adjustpricecap #ofgem #energycrisis #petition #BritishGas

Last updated 1 year ago

Mark H · @neonbubble
665 followers · 4321 posts · Server mstdn.social

A local brewery operating for the last sixteen years in the area, making some of the best beers in the region, announced that it simply couldn't continue to even break even with the costs of business rents and huge energy price rises, and would be closing down in a few weeks.

But at least the energy company shareholders will get a nice pay-out.

bbc.co.uk/news/business-663151

#BritishGas #portsmouth

Last updated 1 year ago

Michael · @therightarticle
1540 followers · 11248 posts · Server mas.to

profits soar by staggering 889% to record £969m as households struggle with huge bills independent.co.uk/news/uk/home

#BritishGas

Last updated 1 year ago

Michael · @therightarticle
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Jezbers #FBPR #FBPPR · @jezbers
314 followers · 301 posts · Server metalhead.club

Can you believe my energy company says they owe me (yes I'm credit) nearly £6,000 and yet they refuse to offer a refund. British Gas if you want to know. They recently announced £3.3 bn record profits. They use customers credits as an interest free loan to fund working capital. What a shameless bunch of people.

#profiteeringfomrcrises #rippingoffthepublic #BritishGas

Last updated 1 year ago

Primo Natura · @primonatura
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MKD · @MKD
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RT @Chrisss0101u
fucked up my bill, hit me with three years all at once and have forced me onto a payment plan which I can’t afford I’m disabled, I’m housebound and I can’t afford to eat or to heat my home. If anyone can help I’d be grateful.

gofund.me/c22cbb2f

#BritishGas

Last updated 2 years ago

Scottish Lass · @scottishlass
970 followers · 1551 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Just uploaded winter fuel meter readings for "so we can bill you correctly". You'd be correct in thinking this will also require smelling salts to see the new bill 💰

#electricity #gas #costofliving #fuel #BritishGas

Last updated 2 years ago

Jules 🍺 · @julesbl
155 followers · 6142 posts · Server mastodon.me.uk

I've just signed the petition calling on @centricaplc boss Chris O'Shea to donate his £1.6M bonus to an energy hardship fund. People are struggling while British Gas and others make billions! Please can you sign and RT too: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions via @38degrees

#uk #petition #costoflivng #BritishGas

Last updated 2 years ago

Darrin Nightingale · @less_beauty
46 followers · 194 posts · Server mas.to

Centrica profit triples to 3.3 billion, a record high because of soaring energy prices, “paving the way for a 300 million pound share buy-back, sending the company's shares to their highest level in almost four years”. Meanwhile, these companies and their governments say there’s not enough money to invest in green transition.

reuters.com/business/energy/ce

#profiteering #BritishGas #Centrica #nationalise

Last updated 2 years ago

I'm with and seeing the profits they made off us is disgusting. I live in a small flat with my youngest son and our gas was £23 a month last year and its already gone up to £128 a month. They are profiting off people who are already struggling financially! 128 probably doesn't seem like much but I'm a single parent and disabled so every penny counts. If it goes up again I won't be able to pay for it. Yet they're making billions! 🤬

#costofliving #Centrica #BritishGas

Last updated 2 years ago

Jane Eyrie · @jane_eyrie
38 followers · 38 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Top FT headline this morning: Centrica, which owns British Gas, has made record profits of £3.3bn. A surplus will go towards shareholders & share buybacks.

British Gas was recently found to have been breaking into working class homes in order to illegally install pre-payment meters, which charge disproportionately high rates to customers.

British Gas was a publicly owned utility until 1986. Share buybacks were illegal until 1981.

#BritishGas #privatisedbritain #energybills

Last updated 2 years ago

JuneSim63 💚 · @junesim63
652 followers · 3164 posts · Server mstdn.social

British Gas owner Centrica has posted huge profits after energy prices soared last year.

Centrica's full-year profits hit £3.3bn for 2022, more than triple the £948m it made the year before.

The figures come after British Gas was criticised over its use of debt agents to force-fit prepayment meters in the homes of vulnerable customers.

(Now watch for the shareholder buybacks)

bbc.com/news/business-64652142

#ClimateCrisis #Energy #windfalltax #Centrica #BritishGas

Last updated 2 years ago

Qyv (;* Semi-Tootergeist *;) 🍍 · @PhotonQyv
372 followers · 17611 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

Make that 4 calls (& counting) to sort things out with

Guess what we received from them this morning?:*

Another letter addressed to 'unknown at this address' person, their first bill, apparently.

So, had to phone them up yet again! Our account is now open again, 'unknown' account has now been flagged & we should no longer get any post for 'them'.

Here's wondering if this is now finally all sorted, or whether we'll have anything further from our ever so efficient Gas Supplier‽;*

#BritishGas

Last updated 2 years ago