UN-Privativatise energy companies

Renationalisation is a non starter due to EU directives and anti competition laws.

What milliband could do is create a new publically owned energy company... Just like EDF, which is owned by the French government

chanz4 wrote: »

that will just put prices up, not down competition creates lower prices

If only we had competition in the energy market you may have a point...

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays wrote: »

Damn this uncompetitive cartel, I despise having the cheapest energy of any Western European nation!

This is of course a nonsense and shows you have been listening to your employer's (Previous employer? This week's employer? Who knows?) propaganda. The ONLY way to truly determine the relative cost of ANY commodity/service etc between nations is to show the cost as a %tage of income. I'm afraid it just isn't a case of looking at the cost of something in another country, going on XE.com and doing the maths (and I actually think you know this). For instance, this sort of simplistic exampling is very much open to currency fluctuations. Say one nation's currency suddenly experiences a massive dip/increase - does that then make them, overnight, the cheapest/most expensive for gas and electricity in Europe? It's a nonsense stat peddled by industry shills.

Of course, if we then accept my way of doing these things, we as a nation have more fuel poverty than any other nation in Europe except Estonia. So much for the cheapest prices in Europe spin.

Argue against THAT one

MillicentBystander wrote: »

What do their parent company they make on the excavation/wholesale side?

I don't know but I imagine you could trace it all back to some oligarth somewhere in Russia if you keep going. Perhaps we could ask him not to keep his economy booming as we think our bills are higher than we'd like.
I remember in the 80's there was talk everywhere that there would be no gas left by the year 2000 so I'm just pretty grateful we have a supply in 2013. (or should I say you, as I'm on lpg!)