The Daily Mash: BRITISH GAS LINKS PROFIT RISE TO MASSIVE PRICE INCREASES
BRITISH Gas has said its 500% increase in profits is the result of charging people much more money to buy gas.
Unveiling its annual results, the company insisted the £480 million profit jump vindicated its strategy of making it a lot more expensive to cook food and keep warm.
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Posted on February 21st, 2008 at 11:21 am
It’s also the consumers’ fault that, despite the supreme efficiency of the market, British Gas doesn’t have a greater (or, indeed, any detectable) commitment to a sustainable energy policy. Virtually nobody in Britain uses energy from sustainable sources, so there isn’t any market for it, so almost nobody is selling it, so virtually nobody is using it …
Ooh, that’s one for the staff noticeboard