Standing charges

I live quite frugally and my annual gas & electricity costs are just over £!000.

What galls me is that my standing charges and VAT acccount for over 40% of my annual bill at over £400 and however frugal I try to be there is nothing I can do about them.

So basically I am paying British Gas over £400 per annum for me to read my own meters and for them to then bill me. No wonder their fat cats are coining it in with multi million pound profits for basically sitting on there arses!

Rant over!

P is in total agreement, nodding his head frantically and ranting along with you. He says if you google 'why are my energy standing charges so high' it spells it out for you. I haven't  looked but he says it a government thingy to allow the energy companies to recoup network costs and supplier failure costs.  The IOW flat costs an arm and a leg just on standing charges. You're not ranting alone. But think of the savings you get from not buying vegetables