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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
They are not state owned companies, if the government were to try and cap prices they might just abandon the supply market and let the lights go out. Millipede's ill judged cap statement wiped over £1 billion off these companies and that came straight out of the pension funds.
Anyway join the club, we're with SSE and have already had the price hike (8.3%) that is coming to all the customers whoever you get your energy from. A big chunk of it comes from the carbon and green taxes that the last administration, Labour remember?, signed up for.
Some of your increase also pays for those in fuel poverty to get help.
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Just think, if he didn't keep posting this stuff, we wouldn't get to expose it and people might forget just what the last lot got up to.
Decades of short-termism and failure to invest, by various governments, has led us to where we are and I for one wouldn't want to go back to that sort of state ownership.