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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Kyriaki Yiakoumetti
Joanna Bottiglieri
Roger Edwards
Michele Simon
David Viner
David Hunt
Ruby Garth
Sharon Robinson
Paul King
James Drummond
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Kerry Bound
Peter Janek
Mr Dominic R Smith
Kathleen Cornmell
Mohammad Sheeraz
Lynda Gallagher
Mike Wilcock
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Marion Eaton
Dorothy Gooderham
Helen Worster
Jeremy Bonner
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Judith Mcgregor
Esther
Hez Macdonald
Carla Rennie-Nash
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Michael Davis
Janet Taylor
Brian Mcfall
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Susan Watts
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Ian Mercer
Janet Whitehouse
Ciara P
Yusef Saleh
Shereen Heward
Sharon Edwards
Colin Thompson
Julie Flanaghan
Myrna Cox
Shalene Solly
Chris Sheldon
Suzanne Forbes-Murray
Lesleyann Hamilton
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