Well done British Gas!
27 February 2013, 04:56 PM
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Well done British Gas!
Nice to see a British company doing so well in these so called hard times. Isn't it time we stopped whingeing when big companies report successful results and rejoice in the fact that they are paying huge amounts of corporation tax, employing 1000's of people who also pay tax and NI and are also investing billions into research and the gas infrastructure in this country. And here is a breakdown of where the money goes.
It said of the average customer bill of £1,188 a year, the wholesale energy cost made accounted for £568, £283 went to delivery to the home, environmental and social policies added £112 and tax made up £72. Operating costs totalled £104, leaving it with £49 in profit per household
So about 4.5% overall profit, that's nothing in the big scheme of things and a much smaller percentage than all of the rip off supermarkets report year after year which nobody ever seems to notice.
Well done British Gas!
It said of the average customer bill of £1,188 a year, the wholesale energy cost made accounted for £568, £283 went to delivery to the home, environmental and social policies added £112 and tax made up £72. Operating costs totalled £104, leaving it with £49 in profit per household
So about 4.5% overall profit, that's nothing in the big scheme of things and a much smaller percentage than all of the rip off supermarkets report year after year which nobody ever seems to notice.
Well done British Gas!
27 February 2013, 06:45 PM
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Is there any evidence that prices would be lower if it was nationalised?
Or would the Government need to subsidise it to lower prices?
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27 February 2013, 09:51 PM
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28 February 2013, 09:34 AM
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long spells of cold weather = people have the heating on more = more gas usage + raising prices = bigger profit.
It's like Ben and Jerrys raising the price of a tub of icecream during a hot summer. Quite frankly, if BG hadn't shown an increase in profit then something would have been seriously wrong!
It's like Ben and Jerrys raising the price of a tub of icecream during a hot summer. Quite frankly, if BG hadn't shown an increase in profit then something would have been seriously wrong!
28 February 2013, 09:57 AM
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Nice to see a British company doing so well in these so called hard times. Isn't it time we stopped whingeing when big companies report successful results and rejoice in the fact that they are paying huge amounts of corporation tax, employing 1000's of people who also pay tax and NI and are also investing billions into research and the gas infrastructure in this country. And here is a breakdown of where the money goes.
It said of the average customer bill of £1,188 a year, the wholesale energy cost made accounted for £568, £283 went to delivery to the home, environmental and social policies added £112 and tax made up £72. Operating costs totalled £104, leaving it with £49 in profit per household
So about 4.5% overall profit, that's nothing in the big scheme of things and a much smaller percentage than all of the rip off supermarkets report year after year which nobody ever seems to notice.
Well done British Gas!
It said of the average customer bill of £1,188 a year, the wholesale energy cost made accounted for £568, £283 went to delivery to the home, environmental and social policies added £112 and tax made up £72. Operating costs totalled £104, leaving it with £49 in profit per household
So about 4.5% overall profit, that's nothing in the big scheme of things and a much smaller percentage than all of the rip off supermarkets report year after year which nobody ever seems to notice.
Well done British Gas!
28 February 2013, 10:37 AM
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If you limit the profits that a company is allowed to make, how are they incentivised to become more efficient? If these profits were achieved by increased efficiency then it would be unfair to penalise them.
Like if banker's bonuses are capped then when they have done enough work to receive the maximum bonus they have no incentive to work hard.
Like if banker's bonuses are capped then when they have done enough work to receive the maximum bonus they have no incentive to work hard.
28 February 2013, 02:28 PM
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28 February 2013, 03:08 PM
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What wasn't in the news I think was that BG also got rid of 40% of the management staff. All the managers in the company had to reapply for their jobs. Ones with a successful track record of keeping team costs down and completed work load high were kept on (we're monitored on everything - number of jobs completed per day, time spent at jobs, parts costs, excessive travel etc). For a change a company as big as BG thought to get rid of the management and keep the workers.
As speedking said, it has encouraged BG to become more efficient in how we work. At the moment or biggest expenditure is parts costs, something which we are all trying to get down. The more we can save in this way means a lower chance of prices going up again anytime soon.
As speedking said, it has encouraged BG to become more efficient in how we work. At the moment or biggest expenditure is parts costs, something which we are all trying to get down. The more we can save in this way means a lower chance of prices going up again anytime soon.
28 February 2013, 07:36 PM
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My missus used to work for BG, when she got the job she was over the moon until she realised that they had some sort of weird multi-cultural/PC experiment going on, a bit like Eastenders:
Token black, token lesbian, token gay, token Asian, token immigrant (who brought the rest of his extended family over) and the missus was the token 'over 45'.
The token 'over 45' thing went down really well with her, because she thought she got the job on merit so she was 'gutted'.
She lasted all of one month, within 6 months, out of the 30 or so that started the job with her only one person remained in the job.
One guy got so pissed off with the happy clappy stuff he jacked after sending a hilarious **** taking email around the whole call centre.
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Thats a lot of money diverted into profits/dividends.
Privatising utilities brought a lot of money it to this country, but my god are we paying for it now.
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My other half is a schoolteacher and the waste there, whether paying over the odds for equipment they don't need or use, doing precious little about poor attendance and fake illnesses/injuries, poor use of skills, overstaffing, automatic pay increments, pointless training courses and so on is scandalous. Strangely enough even the teachers who seem to be off more than on behave like they're hard done by. They would be sacked in the private sector.
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This is why privatised industries generally perform more efficiently than nationalised industries... as if they get it wrong the company goes bust. Like everything in life the great ideas are brought down by the fcukwits of society of which the UK has an extremely large number.
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My other half is a schoolteacher and the waste there, whether paying over the odds for equipment they don't need or use, doing precious little about poor attendance and fake illnesses/injuries, poor use of skills, overstaffing, automatic pay increments, pointless training courses and so on is scandalous. Strangely enough even the teachers who seem to be off more than on behave like they're hard done by. They would be sacked in the private sector.