8,011
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
Val Lloyd
Paula Serban
Sin Bad
Rosemary Waterhouse
Sheila Aster
Catherine Conroy
Phil Ware
Julie
Timothy Evitt
Margaret Warwick
Linda Clendinning
Martin Smith
Ian Morgan
Paul Conn
Memory Manyara
John Alastair Pole
Andrew Clements
John Geoffrey Lee
Emilie Thomas
Tim Flatt
Mike Long
David Trayhorn
Chris Rees
Andrew Hastings
Richard Shanks
Sonara Millwood
Gail Sneddon
David Raymond Hoffman
Tara Chand Chopra
Giselle Soons
Ruth Kershaw
Mohammed Abdul Sattar
Rod Thompson
Robert Hooper
Paul Pugsley
Martin Lyttle
Heath Derek
Paula Jackson
Michael Davis
Joy.Elvy Elvy
Catherine Bazell
Rebecca Whelan
Terryl Bacon
Sarah Wigington
Peri Kemal Örek Rogers
Wendy Brown
Laurence Green
Paul Butler
Judith Jaafar
Caragh Wells
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