Shell and British Gas announce record profits!

British Gas announced that they were going to rise prices by 35% and on the same day declare record profits. Who’s lining their pockets? You see, I don’t mind anybody making a profit, in fact, that’s exactly what I stand for. Profit is good. The wonderful thing about our free enterprise system is that we all have the opportunity one day to become like British Gas.

The thing that gets me, British Gas, for the last 2 years we have had to put up with energy price hikes because of some “spin” telling us about shortages of oil or the cost of exploration or some other balony. Then we find that a company that takes all this extra money off us is really just banking it and taking all the extra profits. Now that pisses me off!! Make profit, that’s fine and good, but don’t do it on the back of half baked excuses and political spin.

A link to the ITN website with the story is: http://itn.co.uk/news/01a5da5adea08b668194a9c46af890f3.html