"Tell Sid" was the ad slogan for British Gas shares, not "Tell Rupert" or "Tell his Lordship".
"British Gas have a customer complaints department who would not even deal with it, " he said.
The parent of British Gas, it is exposed to fossil-fuel prices and keen to diversify.
The British Gas option would have two different tariffs, but more than two different prices.
The British Gas tariff increase, announced in July, will affect about nine million households.
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Unison said it had reached the best agreement possible with British Gas under the circumstances.
British Gas was invited to explore offshore a few years ago, although production did not follow.
British Gas recognised that its increase, which will take effect from 16 November, would be "unwelcome".
For example, Centrica, which trades as British Gas, thinks that some electricity companies have dragged their feet.
British Gas says customers will only pay for the energy they use, putting an end to estimated bills.
For 11 years he was blacklisted, and was barred from board appointments with British Shipbuilding and British Gas.
Nguema says he may persuade British Gas to renegotiate the price in return for getting access to more gas.
British Gas has reported a rise in profits for 2012 after colder weather led to people using more gas.
Now these are not two distinct groups: millions of people hold British Gas shares indirectly through their pension schemes.
British Gas, and Scottish and Southern, will only visit people's homes if invited.
The backlash erupted in the U.K., amid speculation that Gazprom was interested in purchasing Centrica, a British gas company.
Which? also suggested that British Gas offered a cashback deal to one caller, but not another in the same region.
British Gas has said it is simplifying its tariffs after acknowledging a lack of public trust in the energy industry.
There is very little pressure on British gas to be efficient and to keep these price rises to a minimum.
But in February, Centrica, which owns British Gas, withdrew from the UK's nuclear re-building programme because of increasing costs and delays.
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Or to put it another way, British Gas is earning lower profits than when many would have accused it of profiteering.
British Gas last raised its tariffs in August 2011, when gas prices went up by 18% and electricity prices by 16%.
Ofgem welcomed the move, saying that British Gas had recognised that suppliers need an "open and honest dialogue" with their customers.
In 1999, the Palestinian Authority awarded the exploration licence to British Gas.
The independent inquiry into the collapsed tendering process was led by Sam Laidlaw, chief executive of Centrica, the owner of British Gas.
British Gas has confirmed it will close its Southampton office by the end of 2012 with the loss of about 500 jobs.
The company behind the development is Celtic Array, formed by Centrica - which owns British Gas - and Danish firm Dong Energy.
While British Gas has pledged to use this benefit to maintain its price competitiveness, there has been no such pledge from other suppliers.
He added British Gas was working to improve their procedures, including working more closely with Transco and making more efforts to contact customers.
As well as promising to take action against the "big six" energy companies - British Gas, Scottish Power, Scottish and Southern, Npower, E.
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