Ramsey said that much of the “narrative” in Great Britain is that this price spike is not as bad as 2022 because gas prices have not risen so dramatically.
A large majority of households in GB use gas heating.
Meanwhile the Consumer Council’s data on petrol and diesel suggest that prices continued to fall in Northern Ireland over the last week.
The average price of a litre of diesel this week was 178.5p compared to 183.8p last week.
For petrol the price fell from 152.1p to 150.4p.