This is another example why the bible says that 'Greed' is classified as a 'deadly' sin. Greed is killing this nation!

Mark, Maidstone, England

British Gas claim the need to raise prices so they can invest in low-carbon energy. Investment used to be what shareholders funded. Or are paying customes now to share in dividend pay-outs?

A Woods, Skipton,

Oil prices will eventually drop below $100 a barrel, but the price of petrol & diesel will stay above £1. Gas and electricity will stay high. Do you think the Oil, Utility companies and this government will 'kill the gilded calf'? No way! There is money to be made at the expense of the taxpayer!!

Louis, Liverpool, UK

As French reports indicate there is and was no shortage of oil, all these rises are unjustified and criminal. Here I have informed the Gas Co. to take away their meters. Better to use one energy than two. Also installed a wood burning stove. Now they can all go to hell with the banking cartel.

victor compton, Cherbourg, France

EDF is French Government controlled. The French Government has just capped rises to FRENCH people. Does that not ring bells? What is the EU for? Why do we pay so much to join a club where the facilities are denied to us?
Are we being sidelined?
Our leader is not English and not elected.
French??

Neil, Maidstone,

It is your 'duty' to switch supplier every year whether you need to or not. We are being taken for a ride by price-fixing utility companies who have zero competition. The only way to get back at these thieving *ankers is to cause as much administrative disruption as possible.

David Smith, Stourbridge, UK

Perhaps a few utilities executives in the dock alongside the BA price-fixers will turn their minds away from profit by blatant theft and towards their customers.

David Thijm, Stourbridge, UK

Time to publicly acknowledge the failure of current energy policies
Favouring industry over consumers has gone on too long
Civil unrest is not usually the British way however you can feel it coming
Enough is enough

Antony, London, UK

This government forces us to pay every tax it cares to invent; yet in the face of blatant and unnecessary increases by utilities suppliers, it is strangely unwilling to tax them, and help the needy.

Has this government forgotten it calls itself a (hard) labour government.

howard, london,

When a government grants monopoly powers to companies, then it has to actively manage those monopolies. It has to ensure that there is not even a possibility of price fixing - or cross subsidisation by British consumers to European consumers.
So how active are our regulators?

Stuart, Wessex,

If things carry on this way there will be civil unrest soon
It is no good the Government giving pensioners a bigger Winter Fuel Allowance because The Companies will see this as the green light to continue hiking prices.
We cannot keep paying out more money with less.

Stephen Holmes, Withington, UK

Why can't there be more transparency on pricing rather than having us all jump through hoops trying to guess who is offering the best deal at any point in time, then having to do it all again a few months later to avoid being ripped off?

Terence Hart, Bellshill, Scotland

Is this a cartel? Certainly looks like one.

MarkS, Leeds,