Dear Karen,
I just wanted to give my thoughts on the energy
debate you currently having re:
"Energy and Climate Change: Energy Costs (28 Nov 2013)http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2013-11-28a.394.0&s=speaker%3A24856#g394.3
Karen Lumley: Does my right hon. Friend agree that what the people of Redditch want are fair and firm energy policies, in the realization that no Government can fix international oil and gas prices, despite what they are being told locally by the Opposition?"
It may be the case that the government can't fix
oil and gas prices from OPEC for instance, but it certainly has influence that
it can use to keep them down. It should also be noted that the energy stock
sources are not the only costs to the consumer. The quasi-monopolistic providers
like EDF, NPower and others also add considerable cost to the consumer by way of
their ever increasing profits, and these can be challenged if we have a
government with the ethics and backbone to try. Given that for many people this
is literally a life and death issue, particularly for pensioners, it is
absolutely the right thing to do to force corporations to sacrifice profits to
the rich.
Most affordable housing has been built with
dependency on the gas/electric grids, so most people are trapped into being
consumers of these products. They are relying on people like you to deliver the
possibility of their survival since they have no other choice. My own home for
example is built with a gas flue. I cant afford to replace it with a chimney so
that I might use carbon neutral energy as an alternative to being an involuntary
gas monopolies consumer. Many other people in flats and other accommodation for
instance don't even have the possibility of replacing their flue for alternative
heating. This is the case for gas but analogous issues arise with electricity
too.
I hope you remain on the right side of ordinary
people's struggles for their lives versus the efforts of the rich to exploit
them for profit.
Yours Sincerely,
Ian Kirwan
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