Fuel For The Fire

Via the Campaign for Public Ownership comes this:

Greedy energy firms will be the biggest winners of the cold snap, claim analysts.

They say the owners of British Gas will rake in an extra £1.5million every day of the January freeze.

All the major suppliers who refused to cut customer bills before the winter are now enjoying a profits boom as families turn up the central heating to beat the cold.

Gas and electricity bills will rocket by an average £47 per home this month to a record January high of £203.

An estimated 30 per cent surge in the nation’s energy use will line suppliers’ pockets, with Centrica, parent company of leading seller British Gas, set to be the biggest winner.

Richard Hall, of Consumer Focus, wants a Competition Commission investigation.

He said: “Suppliers have failed to fully pass on wholesale price cuts.”

Certainly a good argument for public ownership. As is the fact that public ownership is British ownership, that it safeguards the Union, and that its means of defending both the sovereignty and the integrity of this nation frequently even had the word "British" in their names.

Moreover, remember that wildly inflated fuel prices, falling particularly hard on the poor (including very many of the old), are being enforced as part of the war against secure and skilled employment, against the paternal authority thus possessed of the necessary economic basis, against global economic development, against travel by us common people, and against our access to the meat that we are designed to eat.