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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Maria
Tara Chand Chopra
Tracey Dow
Jill Lucas
Gilly Clarke
Kitty Bocking
Simon Gale
Ali. Khan.
David Mallam
Mussarat Ilyas
Christine Binnie
Lynn Mcdonnell
Joyce Atlee
Paula Bradly
Sharon Wadwell
Mohammad Khurshid
Chris Nolan
Karen Burrows
Michael Hadley
Viv
Ash Stokoe
Karina Sher
Kevin Bennett
Paul-F Tremlett
Patrick Hogan
Debby Symonds
Stephen Parkes
Gary Hunt
Alex Greene
Andrew Chance
Dorothy Holmes
Glenis Dillon
Matthew Ganda
David Johnson
Ian Loffill
Shirley Ellis
Clare Summerskill
Kellie Ahl
Stephen Williams
Lynne Montague
Heidi Ahsmann
Jen Monckton
Nigel Hutchins
Stefan Klawza
Nick Dawson
Margaret Pearce
Niall Mcguiness
Ruth Novaczek
Elizabeth Maclachlan
Tony Stanton
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