Quote Originally Posted by dml1954 View Post
If you take all the profits off the energy companies, they will stop investing in infrastructure, development of alternative resources and most importantly, staff. How is that going to help anything or anyone ? People like you also continually advocate re nationalisation of energy companies - how much do you think that will cost ? A lot more than subsidising energy prices now to the tune of £180bn is the answer. You moan about taxes going up to pay for it, yet you support political ideas that would tax people until the pips squeak. Your socialist ideals are morally and economically bankrupt and luckily the majority of the population can see through it.

Of course they have to make a profit, that understandable. Isn’t the gripe about excess profit in order to pay shareholders? I’ve no problem with people playing the stock market, it’s only gambling after all but shareholders profiting out of people’s hardship can’t be right. Gas, electric etc are essentials in life that should be managed carefully not in a way to line gamblers pockets (although it’s seems a sure bet at the moment, not a gamble).