paul and corinna and lucas' blog

No, it's not a blog about flatulence...

Is it legal to change the price of something after you've sold it? What a genius idea! We got a letter from Southern Electric the other day ("September 2008" but was around the 12th we received it) saying "From 25 August 2008 we will have to raise gas prices by 29.2% and our electricity prices by 19.2%" – if they can do that, why couldn't they raise it by 2000% and tell you later...?

And I might be being simple, but how come they're making record profits yet claiming they need to raise prices so much because their suppliers have increased prices? Surely you would keep you would aim to keep your profit levels the same or bring them in a little if you were having to pass the costs onto your customers...? You'd have thought one of the energy companies would have thought of this and would be making a killing now...