UK gas prices to soar 35pc

British Gas owner Centrica says it will raise gas and electricity prices for UK households by 35 per cent and 9 per cent respectively, citing rising wholesale gas prices.

The company, the biggest household supplier in the UK with over 16 million customers, said profits at its British Gas Residential unit had fallen 69 per cent in the first half, while wholesale prices for the coming winter are up nearly 90 per cent on the previous year.

Centrica shares rose 1.5 per cent to 314.75 pence, valuing the business at 11.7 billion pounds ($24.36 billion).

"We very much regret that we have had to make this decision at a time when many household budgets are already under pressure," British Gas managing director Phil Bentley said in a statement.

He added that the firm would be contacting all its customers to show how they can save energy to offset the price rises.

The bill hikes will come in with immediate effect.

Centrica is the second of the six major suppliers to the UK market to raise prices in less than a week, after French supplier EDF Energy hiked gas and electricity bills 22 per cent and 17 per cent respectively on Friday.

The other four are expected to follow suit sometime before the winter months.

They are RWE-owned nPower, Iberdrola-owned Scottish Power, E.ON UK, and Scottish and Southern Energy.

The trend of repeated rounds of price hikes by the main suppliers was criticised in a report by British members of Parliament on Monday, which said the market did not operate efficiently and that it was easy for companies to predict what their rivals were going to do.

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British Gas hits customers with biggest one-off increase in energy bills ever recorded

Households have suffered the single biggest increase in their energy bills ever recorded, after British Gas raised its gas prices by 35 per cent.

It is the biggest one-off increase that British Gas has ever levied, the company admitted, and means that most families are now paying £400 more a year for their energy than they were at the start of the year.

The company, which supplies energy to nearly half of all households in the UK, raised gas bills by 35 per cent and electricity bills by 9 per cent with immediate effect.

It means dual fuel customers – those that take both gas and electricity from the company – will see their bills increase by 25 per cent to £1,317, a £404 increase compared with the start of the year.

The price increases come just six months after the company increased its dual fuel bills by 16 per cent.

While it was widely expected that British Gas would put up its bills this summer, campaigners reacted with horror at the scale of the increase and warned that millions of consumers, including middle-class families, would struggle to afford the increase.

The price rises will further raise the cost of living, which for the first time in over a decade is now outstripping average incomes, according to official figures.

The company, which supplies energy to 12.5 million households, said it was forced to act because of the soaring price of gas on wholesale market. It added that it was now losing money from supplying residential customers.

However, it is expected to come under fire when its parent company, Centrica, reveals a healthy set of profits thanks to its wholesale gas business, which owns gas fields in the North Sea and which has benefited from the escalating prices.

This is likely to prompt trade unions to renew their calls on the Government to introduce a windfall tax on gas and oil companies, which will be used to help fund vulnerable consumers' energy bills.

Tim Wolfenden, energy expert at price comparison website uSwitch, said: "Consumers will understandably want to know why they are suffering from unprecedented bill increases, when the parent company is still making good money."

A spokesman for British Gas said: "We need each business to make profits, otherwise they can not invest for the future."

While Centrica customers have been hit by a 44 per cent increase in their bills this year, the shareholders have suffered far less, with its shares dipping by less than 10 per cent since the start of the year.

On Wednesday they increased by 8.25p to 318p on the announcement of the bill increases.

The price rises – which have now seen energy bills more than double over the last four years – will hit pensioners hardest, campaigners said.

Elderly people tend to spend a far greater proportion of their income on heating than the overall population.

Gordon Lishman, director general of Age Concern, said: "These price rises are a hammer blow for vulnerable groups, including thousands of pensioners, who have already seen their energy bills rocket far above the realm of affordability.

"It is absolutely unacceptable that around 2.25 million pensioner households are now living in fuel poverty, and thousands more will soon be facing the same fate."

Households are defined as falling into fuel poverty when they are forced to spend 10 per cent of their disposable income on heating and lighting their home.

More than four million households are already estimated to suffer from this predicament. British Gas said it was not increase the amount it charges the 340,000 most vulnerable customers on its "essentials tariff".

Charities pointed out that it was not just the vulnerable that would be hit, but many middle-class families, already feeling the pinch from soaring food, mortgage and transport costs would be unable to cope.

Elizabeth Finn Care, which gives aid to professionals that fall on hard times, said that it had already given out a 53 per cent more grants to help pay for energy bills than a year ago.

"These latest rises announced by British Gas will only add to the numbers of people from previously comfortable, professional backgrounds contacting us for help," said Rebecca Ward at the charity.

According to official statistics, the average household income totals £27,370 after taxes.

This means that the average family is having to hand over 5p in every £1 of its take-home pay to heat and light their home, after British Gas's latest announcement.

The company's increases follows a similar move by EDF last week, which increased its customers' bills by 20 per cent on average.

The four remaining major supplies – npower, e.on, Scottish Power and Scottish and Southern Energy – are all expected to follow suit in the coming weeks.

The one glimmer of brightness for consumers was that British Gas promised it will not increase its bills again before the end of the year.

Most energy experts were expecting a further round of price increases this winter. However, while the company made it clear it would try its hardest its hardest to delay a price increase until well into 2009, most experts believe a further increase at some stage year is inevitable.

Adam Scorer, director of campaigns at energywatch, the consumer body, said: "High prices seem hard-wired into this market for the foreseeable future."

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British Gas provokes fury with biggest ever price rise

35% hike comes as parent company prepares to announce £880m profit

British Gas yesterday increased the pressure on household budgets after announcing the biggest ever increase in gas prices for its 16 million customers.

The 35% rise in gas bills was blamed on higher wholesale costs but came just hours before British Gas's parent company, Centrica, was due to reveal profits of £880m for the first half of the year.

Consumer groups reacted with anger to news that will dismay every gas-using household in the country. The move is expected to send another 1 million families into fuel poverty if replicated across the industry.

EDF Energy, one of the other five major suppliers, announced a 22% rise in gas prices last week.

Adam Scorer, of the consumer group Energywatch, said he was surprised by the increase. "I'm not sure that many consumers will be able to fully take in the news that their gas bills are going up by over a third," he said.

Help the Aged said it was a "disaster" for the millions of pensioners already struggling to heat their homes.

From today, British Gas's 15.9 million customers will be paying 35% more for their gas, and 9% more for electricity.

The company said the average dual fuel customer who was paying £913 for their joint gas and electricity bills at the beginning of 2008, has seen them jump by more than £400 to £1,317 - this at a time when many households are struggling to pay increased petrol and food bills.

The company said it would protect the most vulnerable 340,000 customers, most of whom live on benefits, from the increase. The 2.1 million customers who signed up for capped products also escape the increase, for now.

British Gas managing director, Phil Bentley, defended the price hike.

"We very much regret that we have had to make this decision at a time when many household budgets are already under pressure. The simple fact though is that we have entered an era of unprecedented high world energy prices. The only answer to cope with higher energy prices, I'm afraid, is for all of us to be more energy efficient."

Bentley said profits for the retail arm of the energy giant Centrica were down by 69% to £166m for the first half of this year. However, industry analysts noted these figures were in comparison to the bumper £577m profit the company announced for the same period last year.

Scorer warned that customers may be looking with considerable interest at the Centrica profit statement today.

"It is now an absolute imperative that government directs the European competition authorities to explore every avenue that might return some sanity to the gas price," he said.

Following EDF's price rise on Friday, the remaining four big energy suppliers are expected to follow in the coming weeks. All have claimed that the price of wholesale gas for delivery this winter has jumped 89%.

In recent months energy prices have become a huge political issue. The government has been forced to rip up its targets on fuel poverty after admitting they are no longer achievable. Earlier this year Gordon Brown travelled to Saudi Arabia in an effort to get production increased, and to ease petrol prices that have also risen by a third.

The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, said the British Gas hike would be "devastating" for many families, particularly the elderly and vulnerable.

"The announcement may have been made in a hot spell in July, but when winter comes round thousands will be forced to choose between heating their homes and cooking their meals.

"Energy companies are benefiting from a £9bn windfall yet continue to hike up their prices on the government's watch. This is unacceptable."

The shadow energy minister, Charles Hendry, said: "The government has not done enough to improve energy efficiency in the home, they have not built sufficient gas storage and they haven't succeeded in negotiating an open market across the European energy sector.

"As a result of this, people are in for a desperate time this winter, as millions of families will face real hardship and an extra million more people are likely to join the 4.5 million already in fuel poverty."

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British Gas announces huge price rise for households

Some 16 million customers of British Gas face huge increases in their bills after the country's biggest home energy provider announced price rises of up to 35 per cent yesterday.

From today, British Gas is raising the price of its gas by 35 per cent, while customers buying electricity from it will pay 9.4 per cent more. Households who buy both services from the utility will see their dual fuel bills rise by 25 per cent.

The increases mean the average household's dual fuel bill will rise from £1,055 a year to £1,322.

Energy analysts pointed out that before the 15 per cent increase in costs implemented by British Gas in January, the typical household was paying £912 a year. Yesterday's price rise means British Gas's bills have now risen by 45 per cent so far this year.

However, the energy group said it had no option but to raise its prices following an increase in the cost of gas on the wholesale markets of almost 90 per cent since last winter.

"We very much regret that we have had to make this decision at a time when many household budgets are already under pressure," said Phil Bentley, the company's managing director. "The simple fact is, though, that we have entered an era of unprecedented high world energy prices."

Centrica, British Gas's parent company, owns substantial gas reserves, but only supplies a quarter of its retail arm's needs and is, in any case, prevented by regulators from subsidising the unit's prices. The company is due to unveil its interim results in full today, but revealed last night that profits at British Gas fell to £166m during the first six months of the year, 69 per cent down on last year's figure.

Mr Bentley said that without today's price increases, British Gas would lose several hundred million pounds in the second half of the year.

The company is desperate to refute accusations that it is profiteering, particularly in the face of growing calls for a windfall tax on the energy industry, and yesterday reiterated its promise to spend £43m over the next 12 months on "fuel poor" customers struggling to pay their bills.

British Gas also promised it would make no further increases this year to the bills of customers on its standard tariffs.

But analysts said the company might have to make further price increases early in 2009 and warned that its main rivals were certain to announce similar price increases for their own customers.

Aside from British Gas, of the next five biggest home energy suppliers in the UK, only EDF has so far raised its prices this summer, announcing increases of up to 22 per cent last week. Scottish & Southern has already warned that higher bills are imminent, while ScottishPower, E.On and npower are expected to fall into line within weeks.

"The difference between the main suppliers on price has been and will remain very small," said Joe Malinowski, the chief executive of The Energy Shop. "There is no question that the other providers will follow these moves."

Mr Malinowski expects most providers, including British Gas, to raise their prices again in January or February of next year unless there is a substantial fall in the cost of wholesale gas in the meantime.

The soaring cost of fuel bills has prompted calls for the Government to review regulation of the energy industry, the structure of which was heavily criticised by MPs sitting on the Business and Enterprise Select Committee this week. Ministers are also under pressure to do more to help low-income households caught out by the price rises.

However, energy companies insist that Britons pay lower home energy bills than consumers in most other countries in Europe. The most recent figures from the Department of Business and Enterprise show that, at the end of 2007, UK domestic gas prices were the fourth lowest in the European Union and electricity prices were the eighth lowest. While prices have risen since the end of last year, there have also been increases on the Continent.

Nevertheless, Brendan Barber, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, called for a rethink of the Government's energy policy. "The UK's coal reserves must be allowed to play a bigger part in our energy mix," he said. "Coal would give UK consumers and industry more stable and secure energy prices, rather than the volatility we are now witnessing."

Gordon Lishman, the director-general of Age Concern, said: "It is absolutely unacceptable that around 2.25 million pensioner households are now living in fuel poverty, and thousands more will soon be facing the same fate. As an emergency measure to help alleviate the problem this winter, the Government and energy companies should be working together to offer 'fuel vouchers' to the poorest pensioners."

Economists warned that the latest round of price rises would also be a further blow to the Bank of England's attempts to bring inflation back to its 2 per cent target rate. Philip Shaw, an economist at Investec, said energy suppliers were increasing bills by more than expected, making it likely that inflation would rise even more significantly above the current level of 3.8 per cent.

"[This] increases the chances that inflation will hit 5 per cent over the autumn," Mr Shaw warned. Such a rise would prompt calls for a rise in interest rates, putting additional pressure on many households' budgets.

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British Gas Raises Energy Bills!

EDF have already raised prices this summer

British Gas owner Centrica has announced it is to raise gas prices by 35% and electricity prices by 9%.

The UK's biggest domestic energy supplier said that the price hikes would take place with immediate effect.

It blamed "soaring wholesale energy prices", but added that standard tariff prices would not rise again in 2008.

The move comes just a few days after rival EDF Energy put up gas prices by 22% and electricity prices by 17%, with other firms expected to follow suit.

Dual fuel

Centrica said the average dual fuel bill would go up by 25%. This is the second increase this year, after a 15% rise in bills in January.

"We very much regret that we have had to make this decision at a time when many household budgets are already under pressure," said British Gas managing director Phil Bentley.

"The simple fact though is that we have entered an era of unprecedented high world energy prices."

A report prepared for Centrica earlier this month warned that annual average gas bills could rise from £600 to more than £1,000 early in the next decade.

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U.K. report claims price collusion by energy companies

A parliamentary committee's report claims that the U.K.'s six largest energy companies were able to keep household fuel bills artificially high while the industry regulator stood by. Members of the Commons Business and Enterprise Committee accused the companies of conspiring to keep prices high but stopped short of alleging that they rigged prices. The companies instead took advantage of operating in a world of minimal price competition, the committee said. Times (London), The (07/28)

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Energy bills set to increase despite oil price fall, warns Scottish and Southern

Scottish and Southern Energy yesterday gave the clearest warning yet from leading home energy suppliers that consumers must brace themselves for a new round of gas and electricity price increases.

SSE said that despite a sharp dip in the oil price in recent weeks, it was becoming increasingly difficult to hold the prices paid by its nine million customers at current levels. "The full extent of the energy shock with which the entire global economy is having to contend had been well-documented and its full impact on prices for electricity and gas in the UK has still to be felt," warned Ian Marchant, the utility's chief executive. "We are continuing to resist the pressure to put up prices for domestic customers but it is becoming more difficult by the day."

The extent to which home energy providers' margins have been squeezed in recent months by the soaring cost of wholesale gas was underlined by a warning from SSE about the likely size of its profits in the first half of its financial year, which ends 30 September.

In previous years, SSE made the majority of its annual profits during its first half, but Mr Marchant warned this year's interim results announcement would be more downbeat, with profits in the first half expected to be "substantially lower" than in the same periods of 2006 and 2007.

Nevertheless, the company believes it will meet profits expectations for the full year, suggesting that it is planning on the basis of higher prices from the autumn onwards. Increases at SSE are likely to be broadly in line with similar price rises now expected from rival energy suppliers, with independent analysts predicting last week that gas bills will go up by 60 per cent in the next 12 months. Ann Robinson, director of consumer policy at uSwitch.com, the price comparison site, warned: "Coupled with the credit crunch and the ongoing battle to make their money go further, consumers should steel themselves for a winter of discontent."

Another round of price rises will nonetheless disappoint customers, given that the oil price has fallen back by almost 13 per cent to around $127 a barrel today, from a high of close to $148. However, the utilities argue that most of the rise in oil prices this year has not yet been reflected in home energy bills. Wholesale gas prices have also fallen less sharply than oil, correcting by around 11 per cent over the past six weeks.

Joe Malinowski, managing director of The Energy Shop, the energy market analyst, warned there was little chance of a reprieve for customers. "The gas price falls we've seen are nowhere near enough to prevent one or possibly two more rises in bills," he said. "The falls have come far too late and from too high a level to make a significant difference."

Mr Malinowski believes energy companies, including British Gas, will begin announcing price rises within the next fortnight. "Our best hope is that we get a modest rise now and probably another modest rise later on, rather than one big increase straight away." Energy analysts believe the oil price would have to fall back to around $100 a barrel for energy bills to be sustainable at their current rates. Another round of price increases will also be a major blow to the Bank of England, which has blamed energy bill costs as a major contributor towards its failure to keep inflation within 1 percentage point of its 2 per cent target.

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Rising prices hit poorest hardest!

A gas and electricity company is to buck the trend of rising energy prices
by offering cheaper bills to its poorest customers.
Ebico has announced it will offer the same savings to the less well off that companies like EDF offers to direct debit customers. This comes in response after a statement by Mr Wicks, the Health Minister, saying that many households are paying energy tariffs that are unjust and totally disproportionate.
The not-for-profit company which is committed to tackling fuel poverty will
offer its customers using prepayment meters the same savings.

An estimated 2.3 million homes have a gas prepayment meter and 3.5 million households use an electricity pre-pay meter who are far more likely to be on low incomes than customers using other payment types.* It looks as if something is finally be being done to stop this terrible injustice, said Phil Levermore, Managing Director of Ebico, Mr Wicks comment shows that the big six energy companies will have to lower their prices for households using prepayment meters. As for now, we cant stop energy prices rising, but we can offer prepayment metered customers a deal that gives them the sort of cost savings that, with all the other suppliers, youd have to set up a monthly Direct Debit to get.
*Energywatch. 2007 Energy Consumers Survey

Ends
Notes to Editor
For more information contact Ellie Tooze: 01993 225 061

1. Three and a half million households in the UK pay in advance for their electricity by using pre-payment meters. Over two million pay for gas in the same way. Pre-payment meters are disproportionately used by the less well-off with 35% of single parents pay in advance for their electricity as do 36% of unemployed persons. Energywatch figures show the average dual fuel direct debit customer pays £772 a year for gas and electric, while a prepayment customer pays £967 a difference of £195.
2. One in six British households is experiencing fuel poverty, the highest for almost a decade.
Each winter, fuel poverty is responsible for 20,000 to 50,000 premature deaths in the UK.
www.berr.gov.uk
An estimated 30% of lone pensioners are and 7% of older couples are living in fuel poverty. Energywatch Annual Report, 2007.
Energy efficiency of houses is measured by the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) which assesses insulation and heating, rating from 0 (poor) to 100 (good). A rating above 60 indicates good efficiency standard. The average rate is 51.4, and 82% of households living in fuel poverty live in housing with an SAP under 50. Fuel Poverty and Elderly Report
Prepayment customers have lower incomes than others; 40% were in the two lowest deciles in England in 2005/6 compared with 20% of all customers and less than 5%were in the top 2 deciles. In 2006 19% of those paying for both fuels by prepayment were fuel poor compared with 6% for direct debit customers an incidence of fuel poverty more than 3 times as high amongst prepayment compared with direct debit. The incidence of fuel poverty amongst standard credit customers is also fairly high. FPAG, 2007

3. Ebico Ltd is a not for profit company limited by guarantee and committed to those on low incomes. Ebico, the only not-for-profit domestic energy company in the UK, has been making a real difference to low income households for nine years now. They launched their first product, EquiGas, back in 1999. EquiGas was an innovative domestic gas tariff that delivered lower prices to pre-payment meter (ppm) and payment-plan customers predominantly lower income households by enabling customers who paid by Direct Debit to share the savings related to their chosen payment method. Based on the huge success of EquiGas, Ebico then launched EquiPower in 2002 to challenge exactly the same issues in the domestic electricity supply market. EquiGas and EquiPower are the fairest domestic gas and electricity tariffs in the UK and are competitively priced so that, irrespective of how they pay their bills, many customers can cut their energy bills by switching to Ebico. Thirty thousand UK households have now switched to Ebicos fairer tariffs.

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U.K. May Have to Open Antitrust Probe of Utilities, Panel Says

July 28 (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. government should consider pursuing an antitrust investigation in Britain's wholesale gas and electricity markets, as retail prices head ``significantly'' higher, a panel of lawmakers said.

The Business and Enterprise Committee in the House of Commons, which includes members of Parliament from the nation's three main political parties, concluded in a report today that the U.K. has higher natural gas prices than other European countries. The panel said this suggests a lack of competition, though it didn't find proof of price-fixing.

``Just because we have found no evidence of collusion does not mean we have given the Big 6 energy companies a clean bill of health,'' said Peter Luff, a lawmaker from the Conservative opposition who leads the committee. ``Far from it.''

The report reflects mounting pressure on politicians to tackle record energy prices as slowing economic growth and accelerating inflation squeeze household budgets. In the U.S., the Senate is debating a bill to curb energy-market speculation.

The U.K. lawmakers said Ofgem, the industry regulator, should have first crack at reining in the industry. If that doesn't curb prices, then the Competition Commission, an independent agency that can order companies broken up, should step in.

Any probe into wholesale gas prices would send a ``chill'' through the energy industry and lead to reduced investment, Richard Guerrant, a director of European operations for Exxon Mobil Corp., told the committee when he testified last month.

Committee Recommendations

The panel has no authority to enforce its recommendations, which the government and regulators are free to ignore. The government will respond to the report in the next few weeks.

Ogfem, the regulator, said in a statement in ``welcomed'' the committee report, saying it will contribute to its own ongoing investigation into a link between wholesale and retail energy pricing.

U.K. gas prices have risen more than fourfold to about 60 pence a therm from a low in April last year of 13.5 pence a therm. Gas for delivery this winter reached an all-time high of 105 pence a therm last month.

The report said producers' unwillingness to sell gas on forward markets, which let buyers and sellers lock in prices at delivery in the future, was pushing prices higher. It urged Ofgem to investigate the lack of price transparency in forward markets.

Rising Prices

The lawmakers' committee, which monitors the performance of the government on energy matters, said it expects gas and electricity bills to rise ``significantly'' in the near future.

Electricite de France SA's U.K. unit on July 25 raised electricity and natural gas bills for households because of rising wholesale costs. Power bills will be increased by 17 percent and gas charges by 22 percent from today, according to company spokesman Rajan Lakhani.

The lawmakers urged Ofgem to show a ``greater sense of urgency'' in its work and to ``look again'' at the way wholesale markets work in the U.K. The report said a competition inquiry should be avoided if possible.

``Our view is that changes can best be made through improving market design, by taking specific regulator steps and by continue to work for liberalization of European markets,'' Luff said. ``Such an approach is more likely to bring real and lasting investment the U.K. needs so urgently.''

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Household bills will suffer from energy price hikes, MPs say

MPs have called for an urgent address of problems caused by rises in gas and electricity bills, the BBC reports.

The Business and Enterprise Select Committee said that energy price increases will impact seriously upon households and that thousands of manufacturing jobs could be lost if UK prices stay higher than comparative ones in Europe.

Its inquiry found that the UK energy market is not as efficient as it could be, but there was no evidence to suggest that major firms are colluding to keep prices high.

Still, committee chairman Peter Luff commented that this did not mean the report had given the main energy companies "a clean bill of health - far from it".

EDF Energy raised gas and electricity prices by 22 per cent and 17 per cent for domestic and small business customers last week.

Financial website Moneyexpert.com described the rises as "a kick in the teeth for their 7.9 million customers" and advised EDF customers to "start looking around for a better deal".

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EDF energy price hike

Unable to absorb the price of gas, EDF is forced to raise their wholesale gas and electricity prices.

EDF Energy will increase gas prices by 22% and electricity by 17%, resulting in customers on the EDF duel fuel tariff to pay at least £3.97 a week for energy. The raise in energy prices is to be blamed on record oil prices and unexpectedly high prices for coal and electricity, according to EDF. Other energy companies are predicted to mimic EDF and increase their energy prices.

Now EDF has announced its tariff changes, other energy companies will follow suit “in very short order”.

It could be just a few weeks before every big gas and electricity company in Britain has hiked prices in line with EDF’s increases -- and it’s unlikely that energy price inflation will stop there.

Insiders all agree that we should expect to see a further round of rises either late this year or in early 2009, possibly taking the total increase in our energy bills to around 50%.

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Gas Bills Could Rise by up to 70%!!

The Telegraph reports today that gas bills could rise by 70 per cent to hit more than £1,000 over the next few years because of soaring global oil prices, according to a report produced by analysts on behalf of British Gas.

The report, written by Eclipse, a well-respected group of Norwegian energy experts, makes clear that Britain faces an acute shortage of cheap energy. Consumers, who have already seen their energy bills shoot up by 15 per cent this year, will have to get used to permanently high prices, the report warns.

Oil has risen from below $100 a barrel to touch an all time high of $147 a barrel last week, as demand from China and India combined with fears of a new conflict in the Middle East sent the price upwards. It is estimated that Britain will import 40 per cent of all the gas it needs this year. The report calculates, based on oil staying at roughly $140 a barrel, the cost of gas in the UK would increase by 70 per cent, "over the next few years".

The report adds: "This would raise annual gas bills for a typical domestic customer from around £600 to over £1,000 per annum – if oil prices rise to above this level then this would lead to further increases in gas bills." The six major energy firms have already increased both their gas and electricity tarrifs this year, by an average of 15 per cent. Experts forecast that bills will have to rise at least once more this year and could go up on two separate occasions.

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Cry for help from debt-ridden middle class

A debt advice charity is being overwhelmed by demands for help in some of the most affluent parts of the country. Transact, which represents more than a thousand organisations and individuals involved with people suffering financial hardship, said last night that the number of middle-class people wanting advice was rising dramatically.

Its alert came as a survey for The Times found that people attempting to escape the property crash by renting rather than buying face increases of as much as 17 per cent this year. At the same time a survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors predicted that house prices will fall by about 5 per cent and the number of housing sales could fall by 40 per cent.

Transact said that the credit crunch was leaving many professionals and homeowners unable to cope with their mounting debts, and some advice centres were having to turn people away. In affluent areas such as Haywards Heath, West Sussex, and Congleton, Cheshire, there had been a 100 per cent rise in the number of inquiries in the past year.

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At the Mid-Sussex Debt Advice Centre, which serves the Haywards Heath area, the average debt of clients — excluding mortgages — is £20,000, rising to £110,000 in the most extreme cases. Emma Russell, a debt adviser, said: “I’ve had at least two clients tell me that they would have killed themselves if they hadn’t found out that we were here.”

Jamie Elliott, the co-ordinator of Transact, told the BBC: “In the past it was almost uniquely people on benefits, people in social housing, who went to debt advice agencies. Since the credit crunch started they are seeing a big increase in professional people and homeowners coming to seek help, who have just been pushed over the edge and now can’t cope with their outgoings.”

The survey for The Times by Hometrack, the property data company, found that the cost of renting a home rose on average by 6.15 per cent in the year to April. In hotspots such as Oxford, Birmingham and London, rents rose by 17, 16 and 14 per cent respectively, while in Cambridge and Sheffield, tenants are paying an average 10 per cent more than they were in March last year.

Richard Donnell, the director of research for Hometrack, said: “The rental sector is a waiting room for the housing market and more people are being pushed into that waiting room just as rents are being forced up.”

Many of the people seeking help from debt advice agencies had used credit in their homes to pay for home improvements but, as fixed-rate mortgage terms came to an end and the cost of living increased, many people were finding it hard to meet repayments, even if they earned a relatively good salary.

Transact said that it expects the problem to become worse, and has called for more funding to provide debt advice.

The Hometrack data tracks rents on two-bedroom flats or houses, but the cost of tenancy is reported to be rising even more quickly for larger family homes. A survey by Paragon, a buy-to-let lender, suggested that rents for detached homes have risen by 30 per cent, compared with an average of 12 per cent across all housing types.

The survey suggests that rent rises are highest in the South West, up by an average of 42.2 per cent, and in East Anglia, where they are 31.9 per cent higher.

The Money Centre said that one third of its landlords had reported plans to increase rents within the past three months, by an average of 6.8 per cent.

The mismatch between supply and demand in homes for rent is helping to create the above-inflation increase in housing costs.

The rent for two-bedroom properties is falling, however, in some areas, including Milton Keynes, Leicester and Reading, because mortgage repayments are similar to the cost of renting. In Milton Keynes, where the rent on an average £140,700 two-bedroom home is about £177 a week, it would cost £178 to buy with a 15 per cent deposit and an interest rate of 6 per cent.

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Middle class take up second jobs to help cope with credit crunch

They are the middle-class moonlighters. Thousands of professionals are taking on second jobs to help them cope with the soaring cost of food, fuel, mortgages and other household bills.

Lawyers, financial advisers, computer programmers and marketing managers are among those now hunting for freelance work to do outside — or even during — office hours to cover the rising cost of living.

According to an analysis by Capital Economics, a City consultancy, official figures this week will show that 1.15m people now have second jobs, a 5% increase since the onset of the credit crunch and the highest number for five years.

While many of the extra 56,000 people taking on work are exploiting their job skills to earn extra cash, others are turning to hobbies and talents to boost their income and offering tuition in cooking, foreign languages, website design or even pole-dancing.

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“We saw a sharp rise in the number of people with second jobs in previous recessions and that’s starting to happen again,” said Vicky Redwood, the UK economist for the consultancy Capital Economics. “The true number is probably much higher, as many second jobs are simply never declared and never appear in the official figures.”

Employees are increasingly using websites that allow users to advertise freelance services anonymously, ensuring they do not alert bosses to any possible conflicts in interests.

“We have a lot of people who say they are under-used at work and can go online and find extra to do,” said Xenios Thrasyvoulou, chief executive and founder of PeoplePerHour, a site offering freelance services.

The site currently has 6,000 users advertising their services and Thrasyvoulou estimates it is growing at 35% a month.

Luke Aviet, the founder of Setyourrate.com, said that until recently most users of his site were retired workers and students looking for extra income.

“The big difference in the past three months is that we’re seeing middle-class types flocking to the site,” said Aviet. “Typically, it’s people in IT, financial services or marketing people offering their services for an hourly rate as consultants.

“We are also seeing people selling their skills totally unrelated to their day job. We’ve had an advertising copywriter training people at poker.

“But the thing that unites these groups, they say, is that with bills, food and petrol costs getting higher, they need to do something extra to make ends meet.”

Christine Kennedy, a recruitment consultant in the City, spends several nights a week teaching pole-dancing.

“Everywhere you look prices are going up — food, bills, housing costs,” said Kennedy. “I needed to earn more money and I wanted to do something completely different from my day job, something energetic.”

Police forces are also reporting an increase in the number of officers taking on part-time work to boost their income.

Peter Smyth, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said there had been a 5% rise in the number of officers registering second jobs and business interests over the past year.

“We’re seeing officers doing all sorts of work to raise extra funds — selling antiques on eBay, designing websites, working as chauffeurs,” Smyth said.

“One guy who works for the Met now drives a hearse in his spare time.”

Suffolk police have seen a 12% increase in officers taking second jobs over the past year. The jobs they have chosen range from driving instructor to sports therapist, football coach, reflexologist and model.

The economic slowdown has also boosted the fortunes of Avon, the cosmetics company that uses members of the public to sell its products from home. It has attracted about 17,000 new recruits in the past year.

Lesley Hughes, a mother of one from South Witham near Grantham in Lincolnshire, last week made her first deliveries as an Avon representative to supplement her day job in the offices of a tarmac-manufacturing company.

“So many people I know are taking on extra jobs because food and fuel are getting more expensive,” said Hughes. “With this, I get to meet new people and can take my son with me on my rounds.

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Midas share tips: Telecom Plus

Life has become much more costly in recent months and nowhere is the change more pronounced than in basic household expenses. Bills have shot through the roof and most people are feeling the pinch.

Against this backdrop, any firm promising to make life cheaper is on to a winner, so it is perhaps not surprising that Telecom Plus is doing well.

The company operates under the Utility Warehouse brand and supplies consumers and businesses with a range of services, such as electricity, gas, phone and broadband. It is the only group in the UK supplying both energy and communication services and it guarantees to be one of the cheapest providers.

Telecom Plus does not own any of these products itself, but it buys in bulk from firms such as npower or phone companies and passes on savings it makes to customers. As it owns none of the paraphernalia associated with utility businesses, its costs are low. The group also prides itself on customer service and has a UK-based call centre, which is in the same building as the management team.

The business is run by Charles Wigoder, who made a name for himself in the Nineties when he founded the Peoples Phone Company and sold it to Vodafone for £77m just a few years later.

So far, he also seems to be doing well at Telecom Plus. The company released a trading statement last week saying it was extremely confident about the next 12 months and promising a 25% increase in the dividend to at least 17.5p for the year to March 2009.

The most recent results showed a 45% rise in pre-tax profits to £16.8m and brokers believe this figure will climb to more than £20m next year.

The group has about 200,000 customers, which equates to just one% of the markets it serves. Wigoder believes there is scope to expand to about am customers, delivering turnover of at least £1bn.

He may well be right. The company promises to cut utility and phone bills by up to 40%, particularly for customers who take all their utility and phone services from Utility Warehouse. This is a tempting prospect in today's environment and recent numbers indicate that the group is acquiring more customers and that each one is buying more from it.

• Midas verdict: Telecom Plus shares have proved resilient over the past few months, but at 315p there is considerable potential for growth. Wigoder is also extremely motivated to deliver shareholder value as he owns 25% of the company. Buy.

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Stock Market Had Worst Half Year Since 1970

The half year report card for global stock markets was not one to be proud of. The first half of 2008 was the worst first half to a year for the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 1970, when the index was down 14.60%. The 14.44% decline of 2008 is actually the tenth worse performance since 1900. July hasn’t exactly started off with a bang and US traders may be thankful for the long weekend last week. The S&P 500 closed the week down 1.19%, registering its lowest daily close for almost two years. June was especially hard for US markets with a drop of 8.55% for the S&P 500, and a 10.19% collapse on the Dow, making up most of the years losses to date.

The culprits are not too hard to find. The first half performance of the US financial sector was -30%, while the Energy sector managed to find a rise of 8.12%. If you were asked to list the top dangers for the global economy, you would be hard pressed to find any factors that are not already playing themselves out. Firstly we have oil prices that seem to reach new record highs with each passing week. $150 per barrel is looming ever closer. This price action is linked to the second danger, further conflict in the Middle East. Last week, a former Israeli air force commander was quoted as saying that Israel was ready to attack Iran if diplomacy fails. The Iranian oil minister has responded by saying that Iran is ready to defend itself, and that an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would be the start of war.

Oil fuelled inflation is still causing central bankers headaches, with Citi Group today predicting that UK inflation jumped to 4.6% in June. Last week, the ECB went to great lengths to stress that the recent rate hike didn’t automatically precede a series of hikes. Nevertheless, Trichet’s firm stance on fighting inflation has caused some disagreements between the ECB and the Federal Reserve in the US. The final horseman of the apocalypse could be when the global economy finally yields to the pressures of inflation and the aftermath of the credit crunch. There are increasing signs that the world’s largest economy is slowing. Thursdays US payroll figures showed a 20% increase in unemployment year on year. Also Non Farm Payrolls shrank for the 6th consecutive month. With UK house prices going the same way as the US market, the bricks and mortar ATM is no longer paying out, and UK households are already at record levels of indebtedness. Shocking figures from Marks & Spencer last week was testament to this.

The week ahead is a quieter affair with fewer top tier announcements than the week just gone. That said, there are still some potential market moving datasets due. UK industrial and manufacturing production figures are released on Monday morning. The recent Purchasing Managers Index monthly survey of UK manufacturing was described as “truly dreadful”, with indications that this sector at least may be heading for a recession. On the same day, we provisionally have the UK Halifax Price Index delayed from last week. On the same note, US pending home sales are released on Tuesday. Bad news is expected for both, the only question being how bad the news actually is.

The week’s top ticket trading is the MPC interest statement on Thursday. The Bank of England is still stuck between a rock and a hard place, with record oil prices driving inflation, and slowing consumer spending hurting the economy. A no change verdict is widely expected to be the more likely course of action.

With next week being relatively lighter on the economic news front, BetOnMarkets.com thinks that it may be a good time for a trade that looks to profit from low volatility. A barrier range trade wins if neither of two levels are hit within the specific time period. A barrier range trade predicting that the FTSE 100 will not touch 5016 or 5875 in the next 16 days could return 10%

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Pessimists, Realists & Visionaries

In my experience, there are basically three types of people in the world: Pessimists, Realists and Visionaries.

I’m not sure how you’d describe yourself, but let me walk you through a general description of each one, starting with the Pessimist.

If a pessimist is a 10 on a scale of 1 to 100, they generally think they’ll probably go to a 9 given enough time. Because of this belief, they are usually right. And, one of the amazing things I’ve found is that Pessimists are actually proud of the fact that, once again, they accurately predicted the outcome.

The Realist is slightly different. If they are a 10 on a scale of 1 to 100, they don’t think they’re going to go down. But they aren’t comfortable claiming that they’re going to go too far up either. They might set their goal at 12. Whatever it takes to make sure they achieve their goal. And, if they ever miss a goal, they’ll lower the bar even further the next time.

How they are “perceived” by the world around them is a BIG deal to the Realist. They never want to be embarrassed. They never want to lose face. They never want to be proven wrong with one of their goals or assumptions. Because of this belief, they set very small goals for themselves.

That leaves us with the Visionary. The Visionary is a strange animal. Especially to the Pessimists and the Realists.

If a Visionary is a 10 on a scale of 1 to 100, or if their project is a 10 on the same scale, the Visionary sets their sights on being a 90! And guess how many times they achieve their goal in the time they envisioned. Almost never… but in reaching for 90, they might get to 50.

Now, if every person or project was a 10 on a scale of 1 to 100, and you were to evaluate these three groups based upon sheer results, who’s would you rather have? The Pessimist results at 9? The Realist results at 12? Or would you prefer having the Visionary results at 50? Easy answer, right? Everyone says they want the Visionary’s results at 50. But it’s easier to say you want to be a Visionary than it is to actually do what it takes to stay a Visionary.

Visionaries take a lot of heat. Since they are well under their public goal most of the time, their judgment is called into question. People roll their eyes. The Pessimists and Realists spend a lot of time talking about how the Visionary missed their mark by not getting to 90… instead of seeing how valuable it was to get to 50.

A person, who’s trying to be a Visionary for the first time, might say to themselves “Why don’t I just set my goal at 50 and make everyone happy?”

Here’s the problem with that approach… it’s been my experience that when you set it at 50, you almost never make it there either. You might make it to 40 and still be ahead of the others. But then you set the next project at 40 and hit 30. Then you set the next one at 30 and make 20. And in a very short period of time, you’ve become a realist… setting expectations so low that it would be hard to miss them.

If we’re judging on sheer results, that’s not a great place for a leader to be. For an organization to do great things, to a certain extent, the leader must be a Visionary.

Once I learned this, it changed everything for me. And it can do the same for you. People will listen to a visionary. People will follow a visionary. People can become better by being around a visionary.

Believe it or not, the world needs Pessimists. Someone has to be thinking about winter all summer. Someone has to be thinking about worst-case scenarios.

The world also needs Realists. Someone has to take the bull by the horns, make their lists, put their head down, mute out all the grand talk and do the work the organization needs to be done every day.

But I am, and will always be, a fan of the Visionary.

If you’re one of those brave souls, it’s only fair that I give you the downside. You’re going to have to live with the fact that people will spend a good amount of time rolling their eyes and groaning at the crazy beliefs and expectations you’ll be throwing at them on a regular basis. It might sound easy, but I have to tell you it’s hard to withstand the constant criticism.

What makes it even harder is the fact that 95% of people are in the pessimist and realist camp and do you know what they absolutely love to do? They just love to point out the fact that you, as a visionary, missed your goal! Even though you’re much farther ahead than they are. They actually feel superior!

So, where do you see yourself? Do you see yourself growing into a pessimist? Do you see yourself growing into a realist? Or do you see yourself growing into a visionary?

I hope the answer is to grow into a Visionary. I understand you might not be all the way there right now and that’s okay, just as long as you’re willing to do what it takes to grow into one.

So spend some time thinking about where you see yourself and then decide how much sniping you’re willing to take from the pessimists and realists on your way to the top.

I assure you it’s worth it.

Eric Worre - Network Marketing Professional

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Families have £155 a month less to spend

By Harry Wallop Consumer Affairs Correspondent

DISPOSABLE incomes have fallen to their lowest for five years as household costs soar, a report claimed yesterday.

Wages have failed to keep pace with spiralling petrol, gas and electricity bills and taxes, leaving the average family with £155 less to spend at the end of each month compared with 2004.

The study by Ernst & Young, one of the country’s largest accountancy firms, calculates that the average family, with two children, has £755.52 left at the end of each month after paying essential bills. With this they have to buy food, drink, clothes, holidays and pay any school fees.

Monthly disposable income has fallen from £909.84 five years ago and from £821.69 last year, equating to a total fall of 15 per cent. The accountancy firm admits that the fall in “discretionary spend” would have been more dramatic if it had included food prices, which have risen significantly, in its collection of fixed household bills. Jason Gordon, the director of retail at Ernst & Young, said: “All consumers are painfully aware of the huge hikes in petrol and utility bills but we’ve also seen some fairly hefty price increases in pension contributions and debt repayments.

“If we go one step further and factor in food price inflation, which official figures have placed at 8.7 per cent in the last year, it’s clear that household budgets are under enormous strain. Add in the impact of falling house prices on the consumer’s propensity to spend, and the consumer economy is undoubtedly on a knife-edge.”

The figures come a day after the new deputy governor of the Bank of England, Charlie Bean, warned that living standards would continue to fall for the next year because of high oil prices.

Leading retailers, most notably Marks & Spencer, say that they have noticed a sharp and sudden deterioration in consumers’ spending power, which is likely to cause serious problems on the high street over the coming months. The Ernst & Young study says that although an average family’s income has increased over the past year by 3.7 per cent to £3,784 a month, this has not kept pace with the 9.6 per cent increase in fixed household bills, such as the costs of running a car, mortgage, pension contributions, utility bills and council tax.

Mr Gordon said: “Worryingly, though, the worst could be yet to come.

“If, as predicted, utility prices rise by as much as 40 per cent later this year and interest rates are increased to control rising inflation, consumers and consumer facing businesses will face even bleaker times.

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Success Fuel

When it comes to living, if you look at it in broad terms, there are 3 basic states that most people find themselves in. The first is Crisis. The second is Survival. And the third is Success.

Here’s the basic pattern for the majority of people. They cruise along in survival mode and, since they’re surviving and there’s no real pressure to do more, they usually don’t, which means they start drifting towards crisis.

Nothing really happens until you actually hit the crisis mode. You have to come up with $500 or the whole world is going to fall in. When that happens, what do you do most of the time? You find a way. You get creative. You work hard. You get resourceful. You get it done.

Whew! Back to survival mode! That feels better. Now, since the pressure is off, you kick back and relax and, without even knowing it, you begin to drift all over again. And, before long, you’re right back in crisis. And you think, “man! I just finished fighting that last fight and here comes another one! I’m not having a very lucky run here!”

Whatever that fight is this time…

It could be qualifying for your paycheck.

It could be troubles with your relationship.

It could be a test coming up.

It could be the monthly bills getting paid.

It could be preparing for some presentation you have to perform.

Whatever it was, you find that discipline, you bear down and once again you find a way.

Here’s what that life looks like.

Survival. Crisis. Survival. Crisis. Survival. Crisis. Survival. Let me tell you, that is no way to live.

In applying this to building a large network marketing business, one of the things I was lucky enough to learn fairly early on is that it’s the same distance from Crisis to Survival as it is from Survival to Success. When you had to make $500 or the whole world was going to fall in, once you made that $500, you could just as easily continued and made the next $500 that would give you not just survival, but a little taste of success.

Why don’t all of us choose success then… if it’s the same distance? Here’s the reason most people just survive and only a few people succeed…

To survive, the reasons are already built in.

But to go beyond survival and to succeed when the pressure of surviving is gone, you need to come up with reasons of your own. And those reasons have to come from within. Based upon that, if you don’t have the internal reasons to become successful, you probably won’t.

So, if that’s true… and it is, then your internal reasons are what will drive your engine. They are literally Success Fuel. They are what will keep you going when things get tough.

All of us have goals and dreams. That’s called the promise. And for every promise, there’s a price to pay. But the price gets easy to pay when the promise is strong. When the reasons are strong.

Nietze said “He who has a why to live for can endure almost any how”. In other words, if a person has strong enough reasons, they can endure almost any price they may have to pay.

In his book, “Man’s Search for Meaning”, Victor Frankl illustrated through his own personal experience that the people most likely to survive the concentration camps in Nazi Germany were not the strongest physically, but the ones with the greatest reasons to live beyond their personal survival. Some of the most frail physical bodies endured the unthinkable to make sure they could tell their story in the hopes that what was happening to them, would never happen again.

Let me give you another example… Let’s say that there was an amazing inventor who came up with the most incredible breakthrough and offered you a proposal. Let’s say they told you that, if you made it to the top position in your company within the next two years, they would release the cure for cancer and they would do it in your name… from that day forward, no one would ever have to suffer from that terrible disease ever again.

Let’s also say they gave you one basic rule and that was you couldn’t tell anyone about the arrangement. If you told anyone, the deal would be off.

So, if you made it to the top in the next two years, no more cancer and the whole world would know that you made it possible. And, if you didn’t make it to the top position in your company within the next two years, the cure would remain locked away forever and the whole world would know that you let them down.

Heavy duty reasons huh? That’s my point. If that were true, do you have any doubt about your ability to get to the top position?

How much training would you need? You’d figure it out, wouldn’t you?

What if your friends gave you a hard time?

What if it was hard work?

What if some people didn’t want to buy your product or service?

What if you had a hard time recruiting people, or if you did, they didn’t stay around long?

Would you quit? I think for all of us, the answer would be no. We wouldn’t quit. We’d find a way because the reasons were so strong.

What does that prove? You could do it if someone were to put incredible external reasons on you. But, what if they don’t?

For our whole lives, most of us have been driven by external reasons.

Our family put them on us. Do what we say or you’ll get in trouble.

Our educational system. Do what we say or you’ll get in trouble.

The government. Do what we say or you’ll get in trouble.

Our employers. Do what we say or you’ll get in trouble.

Like I said earlier, in order to succeed, you’re going to have to really think about your own internal reasons.

Here are some examples to think about.

To prove something to yourself, to your family or to your friends.



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Take Action Now And Get A Piece Of The Network Marketing Pie!

Network marketing and home based business opportunities are on the rise and sweeping the country. Never before have we experienced such a phenomenon. Much success has been had by individuals taking full advantage of this opportunity. There are more self-made millionaires now than ever before.

Six key reasons for such growth and opportunity are:

1. The staggering number of baby boomers retiring now and in the next few years. These individuals are looking for self employment business opportunities.

2. Middle aged professionals who are over qualified and have been ousted by corporations to save their bottom line. They are forced out of the marketplace and to look for work elsewhere.

3. Mums wanting to stay home with their children and looking for a substantial part-time income.

4. College graduates who are savvy with marketing degrees and have an entrepreneur approach to business.

5. Our country’s state of affairs: A poor economy and the rise of inflation cause a sense of uncertainty and the need for additional income.

6. Now more than ever before, individuals regardless of age background, and experience, want to take charge of their lives. They realise their future and success should not be determined or limited by any company or persons other then themselves.

With these key factors in place, the business opportunities that exist for you are unlimited!


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