How energy companies can get away with murder

[dimpy.handa]

Collateral damage. That, I believe is the term for effects such as this. Most Americans don't mind a little collateral damage in Iraq of Afghanistan, so why not here too? All our actions these days are directed for the "common good". Attacks on the 1st, 2nd, and 4th amendments are excused by references to the common good, or public safety, or as a benefit to the greater majority.

The simple fact is that we want cheap energy. Fracking provides a means to further that goal, and if it means a little "collateral damage", then so be it. Just picture yourself as Spock - - the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

Or, of course, you could simply stop voting the same assholes into office election after election.

 

[shivibhanot]

As far as business models go, energy suppliers have a pretty captive market.
But it's this dependency that all of us, to a certain extent, have on our energy provider that occasionally allows the provider to get away with murder on the price front.
So to help you save a few pounds on your gas and electricity bills, here are five dirty tricks that energy suppliers try and pull...
Bogus free gifts
False sales techniques
Tariffs in a new home
Standard tariffs switching
Rate hikes
Occasionally energy suppliers will abandon the subtle tricks of bogus gifts and covert standard price rises and just hike up rates for everyone. What's worse is that these increases have a nasty habit of materialising just before the cold winter months set in.
Late last year every major supplier upped their tariffs, adding hundreds of pounds onto the bills of millions of customers