The Price of Gas

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PRICE OF GAS TO RISE, SAY MEN WHO SET THE PRICE OF GAS

The Daily Mash
25th June 2008


These things aren't cheap, you know
THE men who set the price of gas have predicted gas prices will rise by about 40%.

The bosses of Britain’s six biggest energy companies told MPs the only control they had over the price of gas was deciding how much they were going to charge people for using it.

Paul Golby, chief executive of E.ON, said: "Given the volatile nature of the current market and the knock-on effect of high oil prices, it's very difficult, at this stage, to predict how much more money I'm going to want.

"As a very rough, ballpark figure I would say I'm probably going to want about 40% more money."


Sam Laidlaw, chief executive of Centrica, told the Commons enterprise select committee: "Russia, oil, global demand, gigantic yacht. I'm sorry did I say 'gigantic yacht'? I meant 'shortages'."

But Andrew Duff, chief executive of Npower, said it was impossible to pinpoint the exact cause of rising prices, adding: "It's totally the Russians' fault. They're all gangsters, you know.

"I met this Russian guy last week. You should have seen the size of his house. Christ on a * bike! And he's got a leopard in his garden. I want a leopard."

Mr Laidlaw added: "You there, more champagne!"

[Mark Gobell]

And since we've got away with doubling the price of gas every so often we looked at reducing our time to doubling the price of gas once again just to see if we could get away with it.

I'll tell you, we bloody well can, so we've decided to just float the idea around in the newspapers a few months before hand so that everyone can get used to it.

It's quite simple really, we're going to charge you what the hell we like, whenever we like.

This has helped us to make record profits so that we can invest in future advertising next month to tell you that it's going up again.