Pay-as-you-go gas on the rise as customers can’t foot bills – Credit Control

SOARING gas prices are expected to force thousands more customers into using pay-as-you-go meters. Bord Gais installed 8,000 pay-as-you-go gas meters in the first half of this year compared with 650 in the same period last year. But now it expects that by the end of 2011 up to 50,000 customers will be using metres. And thousands more consumers are …