We can't be green when it comes to energy bills
SUPERMARKETS are a perfect example of how competition in a free market works to everyone's advantage: they make more money by cutting their prices and encouraging customers to spend more.
So why is it so different with our energy companies? They're making billions in profits and yet all they do is jack up their prices to the point where customers can't afford to pay.
The only conclusion is that gas and electricity suppliers know they've got us over a barrel so they can charge us what they darned well please. And they do with a vengeance.
Two more of the Big Six are poised to put up their prices in the next few days and the boss of one supplier is warning energy prices could double again in the coming decade.
The fact is for all the bleating that customers should shop around for the best deal, suppliers know that in the long term - whether you're with British Gas, SSE or anyone else - it's not going to make a scrap of difference to the size of your bills.
They're going to be extortionate whichever company's logo is on top of the bill. There's no easy answer but anyone who remembers how Labour's socialist stupidity backfired in the Seventies will know that Ed Miliband's solution of a price freeze won't work either.
The only thing that will cut our bills is for all the crazy green energy taxes to be slashed. We should stop building useless windmills and start building proper power stations.