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
Laxmi Rai
Georgina Ramos
Rob Bodman
Catherine Sunderland
Margaret Miller
Danny Wilders
Sharon Herriot
Paul Travers
Di Williams
Sabina Franklyn
Martin Manns
John Lovelock
Syed Saeed Haider Tirmizi
Alison Jones
Christopher Anthony Rodwell
Tanya Swindells
Laura Swaffield
Constantina Lambis
Gillian White
Sam
Margaret Brennan
Prudence Lambert
Gilchrist David
Helen Pattison
Adrian Ferguson
Curtis Vasey
Anna Besch
Gary Lyford
Nitin Shah
Adam Woolley
Brian Mccusker
Robert Galvin
Helen Bee
Jo Savill
Corinne Shepherd
Victoria Fockens
Vanessa Gray
Michael Haughey
Holly Hayward
Mark Sanderson
Roger Shannon
Agnes Martin
Paul Rothera
Donna Pickering
Emily Davies
Jane Banks
Graham Cole
Gary Marshall
Anitawelsh Welsh
Karen Davenport
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