O Tempora, O Mores!

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OK - digressions on time aside, I can feel yet another battle with an energy company coming on. We had a monumental campaign against our previous electricity supplier [we don't have gas, which simplifies matters] over a period of a couple of years or so regarding over-charging and illegal back-billing. We won, despite the ombudsman's eventual ineffectuality: they were found to be demonstrably in breach of practice, energy regulations and basically, the law; and we settled for a line in the sand on the billing and a token payment in lieu of compensation for the ludicrous amount of effort we'd expended in proving we were right and they were wrong. I should have charged consultancy rates for the two us and sued for the inevitable non-payment thereof. However, as I said, a fresh conflict is brewing over our frankly gargantuan monthly electricity bills: £300 +, when there's only two of us old folk living here, anyone? I have never fully accepted the ludicrous sums that this lot come up with each month; some three or four times the national average: if I was running a welding shop from home I would still be surprised at some of the figures they come up with.

We've always resisted the Direct Debit route as the company gets the whip hand with its ludicrous estimation of projected annual energy usage, which allows them to over-charge during the low-usage months and pocket the interest from the accumulated cashflow as a result. That we have to swallow higher tariffs as a result I've always found a reprehensible, bullying tactic that should never have been allowed to become the norm. A unit of electricity should cost the same, no matter what: it always bloody-well did when the world operated in a sane and equitable manner. Anyhow, as always, these slapdash, so-called business people miss the devil in the detail, relying on most peoples' complacency and lack of time to get away with their deceptions. A bit like Al Capone getting his come-uppance over the niceties of US tax law, these people [the energy companies] can equally be undone by ignoring the niceties of their billing practices; something I will be exercising in the coming weeks with the bunch of laissez faire eejits we currently have to deal with over our energy usage. Looking forward to this one - keep you posted... 

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  1. Anonymous4 January 2026 at 11:12

    My supplier can shift time itself!!
    ATB
    Joe

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