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Old 27th Jul 2019, 2:08 am   #50
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Default Re: Surviving early colour receivers

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Originally Posted by Paul_RK View Post
I can't seem to locate energy prices from back then I'm sure they were a small fraction of today's.
I looked it up on the "Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy" for 1976 it comes out at 1.899p/kWh with inflation since then at around 700% I make that 13.3p/kWh so slightly more expensive which was a surprise.*

My father was always a bit tight fisted with the heating and so I used to often leave my old room-heater TV's on all night to keep the chill off!

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My workings out might not be too accurate it's late
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