The dirty lucre of British Gas
British Gas could only become more immoral if it started snatching babies or producing serial killers. Annual profits rocketed from £95m in 2006 to £571m in 2007. Centrica, British Gas’ parent company, announced group pre-tax profits for last year of £2.1bn. Last month, British Gas increased charges for gas and electricity by 15%. Every winter elderly people in their hundreds of thousands die in Britain because they can’t afford to put the heating on. Despicable. But it’s even more disgusting that our government doesn’t do something to end this obscene profiteering.
tags: British Gas, business, electricity, ethics, fuel, gas, profits
