8,013
of 20,000 signatures
To The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy companies are making huge profits and Shell has just announced three monthly profits of more than £8 billion. It is despicable that these companies then set their domestic energy prices at levels we, ordinary people, just cannot afford. It is ridiculous that our government does not do something to stop this.
If they kept our electricity and gas prices low, energy companies could still make great profits. The gap between our incomes and their profits is mind blowing. The hard and sad reality is that children really are suffering now and it will get worse as the weather gets colder. Imagine being a parent who really and truly has to choose between having the heating on and buying basic food for your family. Imagine knowing that if you don't pay, the bailiffs could come and take away your furniture. This is not a horror story. It's happening all over our country.
If they kept our electricity and gas prices low, energy companies could still make great profits. The gap between our incomes and their profits is mind blowing. The hard and sad reality is that children really are suffering now and it will get worse as the weather gets colder. Imagine being a parent who really and truly has to choose between having the heating on and buying basic food for your family. Imagine knowing that if you don't pay, the bailiffs could come and take away your furniture. This is not a horror story. It's happening all over our country.
Open letter text
The government must act to force energy companies to lower and keep domestic prices at an affordable level. They could do so much, but choose to do so little. They could easily pass a law to protect families, old people - all of us - from fuel poverty. It is immoral to allow energy companies to make such indecent profits while children suffer.
Signers list
Peter Wragg
Helen Mitchell
Paula Fretwell
Andrew Scott
Robin Layfield
Nick Grundy
Georgina Kirk
Ruth Posner
Susan Mceldon
Trudy Reid
Shaun Moore
Valerie Wilkinson
Nina De Groote
Alex Hardy
Jacqueline Golden
Claire Lynne Humphries
Min Kennion
Susan Hitch
Lora Macfarlane
Saorise Dutton
Robert Beard
Hazel Procter
Gail Barnes
Kristina Arnaouti
Paul Atkinson
Susie Gibbs
Noa Keren
Tomasz Bartoszewicz
How Jones
Linda Knight
Christine Williams
Peter Bee
James Glynn
Jan Saunders
Sam
Gwen Vardigans
Amy Mann
Paul Cordara
Karen Hickey
Jane Sheppard
Jennifer Bastin
Naomi Sumpter
Louise Smith
Gillian Rich
John Grant
Stephen Poynter
Norman Niblock
Anthony Hebb
Zoe Pike
John Mitchell
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The choices Rishi Sunak and Grant Shapps make in the Autumn Budget could make or break things for millions of people this winter. Can you help this petition win by chipping in £8?
