Monday, September 04, 2006

the price of energy

I can’t believe the price of our electricity at the moment, I have a pre payment meter “powercard” and recently my money has been running away, take last night for instance we just had the pc on, the tv and sky box with a  few lights on here and there.

 

I looked at the meter and it said 14pence in credit, well I nearly s*** myself and drove as quick as I could to the local shop and back which is about five minutes round trip, by the time I came back the meter said 04 pence… just made it

 

So basically I had 5.04 pence in my meter at 9pm last night…

 

Now I looked again today at 12pm now no one was in the house all morning and we never had anything on during the night.. we had 3.70 left ??? now where did it go??

 

How are old buddies going to get along this winter, I am seriously worried for them, they will be sitting with the heating off and loads of clothes wrapped around them, and I will tell you something I fear for what will happen to a lot of them…

 

What’s going on, im not really political but this government need to get kicked out and/or get something done… it’s a shambles…

 

Bloody energy crisis…..  

 

2 comments:

Rayleen Kelly said...

Squiro the elderly (of which I am assuming you are not one?) get a winter fuel payment to help with the costs of electricity and gas bills during the winter as well as a guaranteed weekly income, this was brought in by the present Labour Government, what else would you like to see? Keep in mind that the elderly do not have to pay for TV liscenses, they have free dental care and prescriptions and the pension/saving credit scheme. They have free bus travel ANYWHERE in Scotland and they have free personal care. There is more to be done but do not discount what has been done already.

Brianmcgui said...

too true Rayleen, just me spouting as usual..

Im not really political and like many people probably look to blame someone an organisation or an individual.. Its probably bigger powers that be that control the price of energy rather than our Governement and all the bits that you have said must indeed help the elderly .. thanks for oyur comments