"mike" wrote in message
ups.com...
Hi everyone
I got my gas bill today and it makes for some instresting
reading, If I am right. This this a way to bill all customers a pound
or two more on their bill.
My bill reads

Start date 05/09/05 meter reading 4594(actual read)
end date 16/10/05 meter reading 4703( estimted)
units used 109 @1.554 makes £18.91 for 42 days

Then the price goes up

start date 17/10/05 meter reading4703 (estimated)
end date 04/12/05 meter reading 4927 (actual read)
units used 224 @1.764 makes £44.12 for 49 days

My point is I know that I used 333 units over the total 91 days but not
that my gas use almost doubled after the price rise. Seeing that at the date
of
the change over point for the price rise, Scottish Power Manweb had no
idea how much gas I have really used until my meter was read on the
04/12/05.
In other words I think I used more gas at the lower price and less gas at
the higher
price.

Mike Cole


SP maths do look inflationary but surely the second period would have been a
bit
colder.
IMO, as long as the gas provider has a trustworthy (meter staff) reading
once a
year, can be whenever, its accountants are happy.
As you regret being fleeced for gas by SP, you ought to move away to
taking up a dual-fuel direct-debit plan with nPower promising an annual
payback. They apparently guarantee no rises nor fuel-price hikes till 2007.
And yet these passed-on bulk price rises would affect the whole of Europe's
energy customers. We're happy.