Energy price rise 2022

[Born Hunter 17,751]

18 minutes ago, dogmandont said:

Thanks for that BH , it just feels like there's more to it than that, like we're being pushed to use less fossil fuel and what better way than to drive the prices up.. Joe public have to start turning the outside lights off at night and keep an eye on the units they're using same for unnecessary car journeys and the energy industry keeps making their very healthy profit margins. 

I dunno mate. Like I said ‘20 didn’t see healthy profits and you don’t tend to hear about the companies that fold because they got their numbers wrong. I just think the media like to whip up a mob.

BPs ‘21 finances. Their net income (profit) is like 5% of their revenue (entire income). I’m no economist but it doesn’t seem outrageous for a very good year.

 

 

I don’t understand all of it though so could well be more too it.

Edited April 2, 2022 by Born Hunter

[dogmandont 9,802]

4 minutes ago, Born Hunter said:

I dunno mate. Like I said ‘20 didn’t see healthy profits and you don’t tend to hear about the companies that fold because they got their numbers wrong. I just think the media like to whip up a mob.

BPs ‘21 finances. Their net income (profit) is like 5% of their revenue (entire income). I’m no economist but it doesn’t seem outrageous for a very good year.

 

 

I don’t understand all of it though so could well be more too it.

Your probably a 100% correct BH but the media won't have to Whip up a mob on this one as its affecting everyone, some low income families are gonna have a few harsh decisions to make, thankfully its coming into the better warmer weather. 

[Born Hunter 17,751]

4 minutes ago, dogmandont said:

Your probably a 100% correct BH but the media won't have to Whip up a mob on this one as its affecting everyone, some low income families are gonna have a few harsh decisions to make, thankfully its coming into the better warmer weather. 

It’s definitely bad times for those at the bottom. I really don’t think we are going to go back to the peace and prosperity of pre-2020 for a long time.

[steve66 3,402]

13 hours ago, tatsblisters said:

If i remember right mate as it was nearly 40 year's ago i am sure my mates raeburn used to use anthracite at the time fuel was not an issue for you if you worked at the pit i remember getting at least 4 loads a year for free.

certain it was anthracite used to burn the bars out about every 8 weeks , council wernt happy having to replace them every few months lol

[kanny 20,504]

I use supertherm  smokeless  and I pay  around £340 for 30x20kg bags   so 6/10th of a ton thereabouts, more expensive than house coal but it burns much longer and its much cleaner and I have a lot less maintenance to do on the burner,I'm lucky that I get gifted 2 big bags of logs a week even through the summer so I manage to stock pile a good amount ready for winter .

[twobob 1,497]

17 hours ago, chartpolski said:

When I got married 47 years ago, our first house was a pit house in East Cramlington.

The widow wife next door was almost eighty and got a coal allowance of one ton a month.

It was more than enough for her, so she would shovel half of it into our coal house for free.

The fire was never out, just pull the damper down at bed time, lift it up next  morning, shovel of coal and away it went.

The water was allways boiling, and we had to run it off now and again.

I asked the missus if we got electric bills back then, she said no, the rent, rates, electric were all on the one bill.

Happy days.....or looking back through rose tinted glasses ?

Cheers.

They would have been happy for her if you,d of got the coal in for her i got the morning off school when coal come and the old couple on the end and a whole whopping 50 p for sweets 

[tatsblisters 9,529]

56 minutes ago, steve66 said:

certain it was anthracite used to burn the bars out about every 8 weeks , council wernt happy having to replace them every few months lol

Sunbright doubles used to do the same that's what I burnt though I had to buy them myself. 

[chartpolski 23,323]

1 hour ago, twobob said:

They would have been happy for her if you,d of got the coal in for her i got the morning off school when coal come and the old couple on the end and a whole whopping 50 p for sweets 

She wouldn't hear of it ! By the time I got in from work it was done.

She was happy to have a young couple next door to talk to and fuss over. I think she was probably lonely without her husband, my missus was pregnant and still working, the old girl probably felt sorry for us.

Cheers.

[dogmandont 9,802]

4 minutes ago, sid g said:

i burn house coal on my open fire its 8 quid for a 25kg bag , we mix it with the odd bag of smokeless and any old wood logs i can get hold of-- got a chopped up pallett to use up today , 

A mate uses nothing but pallets to heat his house, doesn't spend a penny on heating oil or coal. 

[WILF 46,687]

3 hours ago, dogmandont said:

A mate uses nothing but pallets to heat his house, doesn't spend a penny on heating oil or coal. 

I get a van load from a local firms “goods in” bay, free on charge.

[Greyman 28,249]

4 hours ago, dogmandont said:

A mate uses nothing but pallets to heat his house, doesn't spend a penny on heating oil or coal. 

Stays warm breaking up the pallets all day to feed the fire

[dogmandont 9,802]

Just now, Greyman said:

Stays warm breaking up the pallets all day to feed the fire

You know it makes sense. Lol. 

[WILF 46,687]

48 minutes ago, sid g said:

i know my mrs moans like fook . 

Chainsaw ! It’s the way forward 

[dogmandont 9,802]

30 minutes ago, WILF said:

Chainsaw ! It’s the way forward 

Mate uses a small stihl chainsaw and a few hours cutting will heat his house for almost 3 weeks. 

[jukel123 7,957]

I had a spell as a binman when I was a young man. Believe it or not it was a great job in those days. Camaraderie, good hours and loads of stuff thrown out which we could snaffle and sell ourselves. The worst part was a round which took in the mining areas. Their bins were full of ash from the free coal they enjoyed. Steel bins with corroded bottoms meant you got a gobfull of ash every step you took.

A common trick, again I'm talking 50 odd years ago, was to turn your gas meter round so that the clock ran backwards. If you were caught it was deemed very serious, probably because of the risk of explosion etc.

I remember a mate of mine got a custodial. The meter man came to read the meter and it registered a lower  number than the last reading.Not very clever.