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.
Signers list
Kathryn Ford
Marc Gilmore
Luke Pochetty
Gillian Dalley
Michael Hadley
Elaine Brown
Christopher Harris
Caroline Hawes
M Simpson
Graham Stocks
Claire Taggart
Bev Robinson
Dean George Adams
Carol Power
Fred Walpole
Lizzieb
Judith Meagher
Akua Owusu Nyantakyiwaa
Julia Fryer
Julie Harrison
Jack Glover
Maureen Harding
Ian Douglas Macnaughton
Maureen Arthur
June Buchan
Eleanor Buchanan
Nick Hill
Teresa Noyce
Lynn Hayward
Cleo Eaton
Jen Pate
Steve Black
Maureen Doonan
Susan Stuart
Jacqui Hastewell
Jim Hughes
Neil Sharp
Ian Graham
Ron Cashin
Shaun Halliday
Steven Power
Patrick Casement
Iwan Roderick
Dorothy Ray
Bexos
Kathleen Miles
Josna Patel
Kay Demery
Milan Panek
Ntumba Luteke
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The choices Rishi Sunak and Grant Shapps make in the Autumn Budget could make or break things for millions of people this winter. Can you help this petition win by chipping in £8?
