They say responsibility for £40 of the £107 price rise rests with ECO. The wording is a little ambiguous here, but we have checked it with British Gas. However, we estimate that ECO will add £40 to the average dual fuel customer’s bill in 2014.” “British Gas is playing its part in a Government initiative, called the Energy Company Obligation (ECO), to transform homes and communities across the UK. The British Gas press release says that whatever ECO is currently costing, the company thinks it’s going to cost an additional £40 over the coming year: The government estimated that in 2013 ECO would make up £47 of the average dual fuel consumer bill, as shown in this infographic from DECC: The scheme subsidises insulation for low income and hard-to-reach households. “British Gas’s ECO numbers just don’t add up when you look at what other energy companies are saying about their costs”.ĮCO came into force in January 2013, replacing two other energy efficiency schemes.
But the government, which wrote to energy companies last week to ask them to publish the costs of delivering the Energy Company Obligation, says: The company calls for government to ” reform” the scheme to make it more affordable. British Gas says that £40 of the rise will come from the increasing cost of a government energy efficiency scheme known as the Energy Company Obligation (ECO). The company blames rising network charges, ‘environmental and social costs’, and an increase in the wholesale cost of energy.īut the company singles out one policy for pushing bills up. The average bill will increase by £107, from £1,190 this year to £1,297 next year. But why is the company’s estimate of the costs of the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) so much higher than competitor SSE’s?īritish Gas announced a 9.2 per cent rise in energy bills today. Excerpt from the book at Beliefnet.British Gas suggests that the cost of a government energy efficiency programme is going to nearly double next year – adding a significant amount to its bills.Soul Choice Ministries: Bill Wiese's official website.^ a b c d Sutherland, John (May 22, 2006).^ a b c "Travel Writing from the Afterlife".^ "Author Of 23 Minutes In Hell Speaks At Word Of Life Church - ".^ a b c "Author Of 23 Minutes In Hell Speaks At Word Of Life Church".And if he's right, then God is an insane tyrant." A writer for the Northern Iowan, a student newspaper at the University of Northern Iowa, described the book as "23 minutes of nonsense" and portrayed the book's success as a sign of the faults of Christianity and religion in general. Steven Wells wrote in the Philadelphia Weekly that "Wiese is either wrong or he's right. Other writers have expressed even harsher views. Rob Moll of Christianity Today, noting Wiese's statement that hell "was hot – far beyond any possibility of sustaining life", commented, "Thankfully, it being hell, everyone but Wiese had already died." John Sutherland, writing about Wiese's book in the New Statesman, remarked that Wiese "rather lamely" describes the sound of billions of people screaming as "annoying".
The claims in Wiese's book have received sardonic reactions from some writers, both in the Christian and secular press. Then, live your life like you don’t want to spend one second in that place." Criticism Read Bill Wiese’s book, 23 Minutes in Hell. Freelance writer Billy Bruce wrote in the Ironton Tribune, "I totally believe Bill Wiese’s vision and hope that many others will read his book, along with the Bible . Lawrence Yang, a columnist for the Filipino-American newspaper Asian Journal, devoted two columns to Wiese's book, treating it as an accurate description of hell. Response Ģ3 Minutes in Hell spent at least three weeks on the extended New York Times Best Seller list for paperback nonfiction. Wiese states that his first experience ended with him lying on the floor of his living room, screaming in horror. He states that he then encountered Jesus, who told him to tell other people that hell is real. Wiese states that he heard the screams of the billions of damned people in hell. Wiese says that the creatures had strength approximately one thousand times greater than a man's strength. According to the book, Wiese, then a real estate broker, found himself in a cell approximately 15 feet (4.6 m) high and 10 feet (3.0 m) by 15 feet (4.6 m) in area, where there were two foul-smelling beasts, personifications of evil and terror, who spoke in a blasphemous language. Wiese states that he had been a Christian since 1970, but had never studied Hell before his experiences on the night of November 22, 1998.
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