Anyone Worried About Price Hikes In Energy Bills?

[nailit]

And other hikes.
Already noticed price increases in food etc!

Anyone prepping for further hikes?
Dont think that I'll be going on a cruise this year.

[douglas9401]

It's that very cruise industry I feel for the most, them and the gold bathroom fitment manufacturers.

We'll just have to ride it out as usual and be grateful when it eases, as it always does.

[Mamyalynne]

It will affect is all , some will cope better than others as is always the way.

Some will be very hard hit.

[RandyMarsh]

We are always pretty canny when it comes to stocking up but i am starting to stock pile essentials.
Pasta, tinned tomatoes, tinned Boddingtons

[nailit]

Why is it said that inflation is 5%?
When in real terms its much higher?
Poundland have added 25p to a £1 kitchen roll...
thats a 25% increase.
B&M have added 19p to a £1 pkt of gravy granules.
thats a 19% increase.

Thats just two items that I bought today, it goes on...
Ive seen NOTHING that has increased by only 5%.

[nailit]

//Pasta, tinned tomatoes, tinned Boddingtons//
Boddingtons I could understand, but pasta?
Why ;-) ?

[david small]

Hold on tight, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. Inevitably, crime will increase, necessity recognises no law.

[Hopkirk]

I'm stockpiling petrol.

[RandyMarsh]

kids are not old enough yet to exist off boddingtons

[Tilly2]

Nails, did you join in the protest yesterday, in Hanley?

[tiggerblue10]

Asda have reintroduced their smart price range which was mentioned on GMB I think. Others should hopefully follow suit.

I remember living on £10 worth of tesco value stuff when I first moved into my old house. I had a mortgage back then and was just about managing to keep hy head above water.

[bobbinwales]

//Poundland have added 25p to a £1 kitchen roll...
thats a 25% increase.
B&M have added 19p to a £1 pkt of gravy granules.
thats a 19% increase.//
Shop around them. Morrisons have reduced a lot of staples/basics- pack of 4 jacketed potatoes down 50p (already very cheap) to 39p, onions and other veggies slashed, bought a giant freshly baked loaf for 50p instead of £1. Yes lots going up, but lots are unchanged and theres price cuts bargains on offer.
Tho of course a few pound's off a months groceries is nothing compared to energy bills going up £10 a week and petrol creeping up again.
Yet the pubs and are local restraunt were still packed this weekend

[Canary42]

The Shareholders are getting greedy.

[nailit]

//Nails, did you join in the protest yesterday, in Hanley?//
Didnt have the oppurtunity to Tills.
Not sure that I would have done anyway.
Seems to have been a bunch of all sorts...
the woke, vegans, extremist lefties, climate change, the greens,

[nailit]

//bobbinwales//...

//Shop around them//
What you and others fail to realise is that that not everybody has that luxery.
We all dont have unlimited footwear or time to traipse miles between stores or a car.

What I could save (say) shopping at an ALDI would be taken up by having to get a taxi (or even a bus) home.
(Cut price supermarkets tend not to be in city centres)

Next step will be telling the hungry not to eat so much!!

[Patsy33]

There are a lot of young families struggling now.
It must be making a lot of people anxious about the future.

[rowanwitch]

My monthly fuel bill will go up by £35 from 1st April, my rent by £30, my employers pension went up by £4.50. I already rely on help from my family towards the end of every month. From 1st April after I have paid my bills and done a very pared down shop I will have nothing left. I can't wait until I get my state pension in about 18 months time, I will be able to do stuff again.

[Tilly2]

Not your sort of people then, Nails, although I'm sure their intentions were honourable.

[fcc]

It's people with honourable intentions that have caused the problem.
we are a island built on coal,and our seas have plenty of oil and gas,
yet we are paying to import coal,gas,and oil just to pacify these people.

[Atheist]

fcc. I think all our home-grown stuff gets sold on the international market and is not ours to keep. (If it was ours to keep, then the companies that dig it up wouldn't make a profit. All our stuff is in the private sector, unlike Norway, who nationalised the lot many years ago).
Thatcher sold it all off to the private sector.

[Maydup]

Petrol and electricity will affect us the most and there's not much we can do to avoid it; we already lead a simple life and growing our own spuds and beans is all well and good but we still need to heat our home. grrr