anyone else had their gas/elec bil thru today. i am not shocked, but angry really

[piratecat]

becuase it is over £150 more expensive (for the gas) than this time last year. Now bearing i mind too, how we all tried not to put our heating on, and i didn't till November 1st. so thats a whole MONTH i didn't put it on for compared to last year.

fucking bastards. i get no help from ex dh, am on bens, am just sick of it.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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for you.
we're in for a shock when our fixed rate ends.
i'm dreading it.
(dragonbutter btw)

you npower dragonsab?

scottish power.
we've been fixed since 2006 until 2010.
it's going to be bad isn't it?

we have just moved from scottish power to npower today

db that was a good move, having it fixed , in light of how bad it's got.

I found npower to be cheapest when i looked 3 yrs back, and tbh still are for my area.

Oh dear piratecat. Does your bill show you the comparative number of units used versus the same time last year?

i have both bills, i keep all my bills! Yes, am afraid it's comparable.

Sorry to hear this. Hopefully you'll get something sorted out.

So even though you didn't have your heating on a full month you've used the same number of units? That is odd? I'm assuming that the bill is not estimated?

well they aren't an exact to the uniot comparison, and i guess the difference in how long i had it on is minus 3 weeks, rather than a full month. Yet i remember that at the time Npower back in 2007/2008 were later than some to put up the prices, then we had a huge hike at the end of the summer.

i think we are looking at about 120 quid more overall.

anyone else?

Ditto Piratecat.
Last year my energy bill was a good £130 cheaper. I am not wasteful with power, have a combi boiler for gas and heating and we had new radiators 18 months ago.
I signed up with British gas now as they are cheaper, the price of fuel through them is going down in february and this time next year I will get a £50 credit on my bill.

Oh and the high bills are NPower too.