British Gas - Combined

Me and my girlfriend are first time 'home leavers' we fled the nest last September and moved into a privately rented house, and the previous occupants used British Gas for both their electricity and gas - so we thought we may aswell leave it as it is. We had our first full quarterly bill through the door last week, and its worked out around about £12 a week each (£24). We've been a bit naive with the money though, and haven't really saved up / accounted for our gas and electricity properly (lesson learned I guess!) so we're hoping (especially with current climate) that they wont cut our gas or electricity off if we dont pay the full near £300 next week ...

I moved to BG when the cost of power shot up I had been price capped for 3 years so it was a shock to find out the true cost of power after searching the web and inputing the actual readings for a year I found that BT offered the best deal. £18 pm for Electric £23 pm for gas, two months later this had risen to £23 for electric and £55 for gas around January this went up again to £23 electric £74 gas even though I had put in the actual readings into the web site at the beginning. I then deceided to change again and found a better provider and cancelled BG, I went onto the BG site to check my bill before I left (leaving 2 April) and could not access my account as it ...

Last year and even now British Gas is the most expensive fuel company in the UK. This is due to bad luck. When British Gas bought gas for its customers it was at the highest whole sale price. I think the boffins at BG thought prices will go even higher. That didn't happened. As the wise ones will know, rise in business taxes are always paid by the customers. Same is true of fuel prices. British Gas has increased price of gas by more than 100% in 24 months. Generally people get duel fuel discounts which could amount to £20 a year, little money (I know) in comparison to the bills however it is still worth money. BG doesn't advertise this to the ...