EricP wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7533389.stm

Anybody explain the gearage between oil and gas prices?

They're just profiteering as usual, and this is when people start theiving
gas and electricity on a massive scale, the same thing happened with tobacco
when the govt went berserk with the taxes, eventually no one buys cigarettes
in the UK as they are readily available without the tax and so because the
govt is making nothing, they hike the prices up even more, and then more,
which just gives the smugglers more scope to sell their contraband while the
govt make less and less.
There will be gangs of rogues digging up gas pipes and hooking a free supply
into every home in Britain soon, maybe it's already started, hence the
astronomical price rises this year alone, 15% a few months ago and now 35%,
but as usual, and as with the tobacco, only the law abiding and more often
than not, the pensioners will lose out by being forced to pay these
extortionate prices.