Due to exorbitant energy prices - are we being conned?? Does anyone
think this might work?

It is abundantly clear that the British Coalition Government have
given the ‘green light’ to the rapacious and avaricious power
companies and utilities (in fact to all the providers of commodities
and services essential to human existence) to ‘rip-off’ the ‘bio-
mass’ (for I am convinced this is the way we hapless British
‘consumers’ are viewed by the present government) to their heart’s
content and without constraint. The way the power companies have
continued to escalate their prices is clear evidence that this is so.
It is also evident that the so called regulator ‘Ofgem’ is ‘in-bed’
with the power utilities and certainly no friend of the consumer!

The latest announcement by Scottish Power of such a mammoth price hike
deserves special attention. There is a way to fight back. Consider:
There are five principal power companies, Scottish Power, EDF, British
Gas, e-On and N Power who are clearly fixing prices by a cabalistic
process of tacit price collusion (the so called ‘Big -Five’). Let
us take Scottish Power as an example for our fight-back strategy.

We need to encourage every present customer to switch from Scottish
Power to (say) N Power – and further to encourage every present
customer to ‘dump’ their current supplier and also switch to N
Power. If just 70% of customers did this the remaining five power
companies would be quickly bankrupted and put out of business.
Finally, towards the end of the process if at least 50% of the (new) N
Power customers would purchase a minimum quantity of shares in that
company to enable them (the customers) to vote at the company AGM or
indeed force an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders with the
sole objective to dispose of the present board of directors and
chairman etc. and bring that company to its knees.

An elegant solution I think you would agree? The central difficulty
would be to break through the passive and compliant mindset of the
British public to persuade them that this strategy is greatly in their
interest and is very worth pursuing! A further difficulty is how one
may promote, disseminate and generally spread the message? I wonder
if it might ‘fly’

"Ardamerr" wrote in message
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It is abundantly clear that the British Coalition Government have
given the ‘green light’ to the rapacious and avaricious power
companies and utilities (in fact to all the providers of commodities

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The central difficulty
would be to break through the passive and compliant mindset of the
British public to persuade them that this strategy is greatly in their
interest and is very worth pursuing! A further difficulty is how one
may promote, disseminate and generally spread the message?

Drop the anti Coalition government clap trap and you might stand a very
small chance.

Mike

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:50:53 -0700 (PDT), Ardamerr wrote:

... or indeed force an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders
with the sole objective to dispose of the present board of directors and
chairman etc. and bring that company to its knees.

And with all the Big-5 now bust where do people buy their energy
from? Of course the companies wouldn't go bust as such they would
just be bought by others of the Big-5 or forgieners (if any are still
UK owned in the first place...).

People need energy, sensible people buy on price, just a bit of trixy
marketing and "competative pricing" and the companies will have
customers. Hum, is "competative pricing" what we have already... As
to Scottish Power I wonder what their balance sheet looks like? About
7 years ago they were the best supplier for us (on price), but over
the last 18 months have become one of the worst. I jumped ship a few
months ago, to N-Power, saving 2.876p/unit *before* the SP 10% price
rise.

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Cheers
Dave.

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Ardamerr writes
Due to exorbitant energy prices - are we being conned?? Does anyone
think this might work?

Same off topic **** you've posted here before, how about you go ****
yourself and join uk.politics.misc
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fred
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On Jun 13, 9:50*am, Ardamerr wrote:
Due to exorbitant energy prices - are we being conned?? *Does anyone
think this might work?

It is abundantly clear that the British Coalition Government have
given the ‘green light’ to the rapacious and avaricious power
companies and utilities (in fact to all the providers of commodities
and services essential to human existence) to ‘rip-off’ the ‘bio-
mass’ (for I am convinced this is the way we hapless British
‘consumers’ are viewed by the present government) to their heart’s
content and without constraint. *The way the power companies have
continued to escalate their prices is clear evidence that this is so.
It is also evident that the so called regulator ‘Ofgem’ is ‘in-bed’
with the power utilities and certainly no friend of the consumer!

The latest announcement by Scottish Power of such a mammoth price hike
deserves special attention. *There is a way to fight back. *Consider:
There are five principal power companies, Scottish Power, EDF, British
Gas, e-On and N Power who are clearly fixing prices by a cabalistic
process of tacit price collusion *(the so called *‘Big -Five’). *Let
us take Scottish Power as an example for our fight-back strategy.

We need to encourage every present customer to switch from Scottish
Power to (say) N Power – and further to encourage every present
customer to ‘dump’ their current supplier *and also switch to N
Power. *If just 70% of customers did this the remaining five power
companies would be quickly bankrupted and put out of business.
Finally, towards the end of the process if at least 50% of the (new) N
Power customers would purchase a minimum quantity of shares in that
company to enable them (the customers) to vote at the company AGM or
indeed force an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders with the
sole objective to dispose of the present board of directors and
chairman etc. and bring that company to its knees.

An elegant solution I think you would agree? *The central difficulty
would be to break through the passive and compliant mindset of the
British public to persuade them that this strategy is greatly in their
interest and is very worth pursuing! *A further difficulty is how one
may promote, disseminate and generally spread the message? *I wonder
if it might ‘fly’

You just need to use less fuel. I have no fuel bills. In fact, they
pay me.
You too can be the same with a bit of effort.
Now **** off.

On Jun 13, 8:29*pm, robgraham wrote:
You just need to use less fuel. I have no fuel bills. In fact, they
pay me.
You too can *be the same with a bit of effort.
Now **** off.

You mean, WE pay you because the UK government has this ridiculous
idea that electricity has to be generated by wind power - it is the
rest of us who are subsidising your cheap living lifestyle. *We are
all subsiding b******s like you who clearly have so much disposable
income that they can afford to invest in a government sponsored get-
quick-rich scheme. *The sooner central government comes to its senses
and realises this is a pig's ear way of doing things the better.

You are a nit wit. PV is not wind power you fool. Anybody that
invests money expects a return. If you haven't any money, it's your
own idle fault.
The price of electricity will reach these levels anyway soon. I am
doing you a favour actually. This will be the norm quite soon, there
will be a PV array on every new house.
Micro generation can be added to the grid without having to modify it,
a big advantage over the likes of wind farms. My exported electricity
is used by my nieghbours.

On 14/06/2011 06:47, harry wrote:
there will be a PV array on every new house.

I really hope not. I like to use my lights and heating (and computer)
after dark. And on stormy days in the winter, when it gets really dark.

Andy

On Jun 14, 11:02*pm, Andy Champ wrote:
On 14/06/2011 06:47, harry wrote:

there will be a PV array on every new house.

I really hope not. *I like to use my lights and heating (and computer)
after dark. *

Batteries have been around for some time.

And on stormy days in the winter, when it gets really dark.

And on calm sunny days you would prefer to be dependent upon a broken
grid system dependent upon wind power?

MBQ