{"id":441,"date":"2006-10-01T14:25:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T13:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2006\/whip-around-for-me-gas-bill-anyone\/"},"modified":"2006-10-01T14:27:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T13:27:06","slug":"whip-around-for-me-gas-bill-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2006\/whip-around-for-me-gas-bill-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"whip around for me gas bill anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistparty.net\/pub\/pages\/thesocialist019sept06.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socialistparty.net\/images\/sidelinks\/thismonth.jpg\" \/><\/a><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Since 2002 [in Ireland], electricity has jumped by 90%, while gas has soared by 126%. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistparty.net\/pub\/pages\/thesocialist019sept06.htm\">From today<\/a> gas prices will rise by 34% &#8211; sanctioned by the Government, with domestic electricity prices to go up by 19.4% on 1 January. In winter months such increases alone could add more that \u20ac100 to household energy costs. This is a huge concern for working class people.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, if you are paying back a mortgage, then your living standards are facing a sharp decline. Interest rates rises are expected to continue later this year and into next. Repayments on a mortgage of \u20ac225,000 over 25 years could be \u20ac200 a month more this December than last year. Up to 130,000 households with mortgages will face serious financial readjustments and problems. 30% of people surveyed said that they were not in a position to deal with any new rates increases based on their current income!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2002 [in Ireland], electricity has jumped by 90%, while gas has soared by 126%. From today gas prices will rise by 34% &#8211; sanctioned by the Government, with domestic electricity prices to go up by 19.4% on 1 January. In winter months such increases alone could add more that \u20ac100 to household energy costs.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2006\/whip-around-for-me-gas-bill-anyone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">whip around for me gas bill anyone?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}