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.
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Zaina Bielby
Christine Biancardi
Margaret Rose
Gertrudi Pribas-Plasch
Tom
Jose Lluna
David Newton
Mike Lally
Gysbert Bos
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Abdelwasi Seid
Christopher Anthony Rodwell
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Freda Harrison
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Jean Galsworthy
Christine
Peter Gradwell
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Marianne Kelly
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Kim Purser
Steve Thomas
Karen Oliver
Kim Ayres
Amparo Belda Arribas
Steven Whalley
Mohammed Patel
Beryl Banks
Mark Bobbitt
Hester Lilley
Lindsay Johnston
John Crowe
Madeleine Leonard
Deborah Crowther
Fiona Brittain
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Danny Atkins
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Tracey Brownsword
Mark Morley
Salim Mubarak
Michelle Ann Green
Jose Alberto Gomes Dos Santos
Jazzmynne Dixon
Annie Walsh
Ann Mariie Pearce
Libby Scarlett
Milton Soares
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