Jonathan Stearn, energy expert for Consumer Focus, said: ‘If pensioners are taking such desperate measures to heat their homes it is shocking. With low wholesale prices and increasing profit margins, there is clearly room for energy companies to make price cuts immediately.’I knew it! This is all George Bush's fault, somehow!
Can't be long now before the old codgers start eating each other, like in that science fiction movie we watched last night, the one where that food products company had that great PR slogan about how they were really just people.
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I see the DVD finally arrived. Edward G. Robinson's last film.
Love me some Heston SF movies!
They're burning books? I wonder how the papers are going to cover it.
UK Pensioners Take a Conservative Turn...
It's always about the Soylent Green with you, isn't it? :)
You know, I had never seen the movie before last night.
I'd love to see a breakdown of the price of coal in terms of "coal company profits" vs: "tax monies collected". Of course, even that wouldn't properly demonstrate the cost of government in that coal, since it wouldn't include the cost of regulation the coal companies labor under.
The "lift price" from deep dirt to refinery of US crude is around $31 a barrel. But we have to pay for $82 a bbl crude - due entirely to the actions of our "civil" Masters in Washington.
Who blame it on the oil companies.
Stranger
"Oh. My. God."
Way to chew the scenery, Chuck.
And notice the innovative disaster they tapped into for that movie. Sure sure, the Ehrlichian/Malthusisan over-population was there, but the OTHER one... 'Pollution' caused greenhouse warming. Innovative for the time, where Ice Age was the 'in' manmade disaster and nuclear winter was just a glimmer on the faddish horizon.
Books, unlike coal, are not subject to UK carbon taxes. Thank goodness they are slowing down this global heat wave we are enjoying.
Fahrenheit 451 was on last week.
"I like to burn".
I read that in 7th grade.
Time flys when your burning books.
Gerry
You'd think someone would throw some copies of the Copenhagen treaty their way. It's not like they're needed...
Working in the energy industry, I can tell you that a lot of us are very nervous about 2010. We are not making our profits that the shareholders want and so the company needs to get rid of assets. I find it humorous that they think we are making too much money. Sorry about that, but not true buddy.
They always tell us that employees are their most valuable assets.
Yeah it is layoff time. The chopping block is rolling out and it is time to cut the staff again.
Possible advertising slogans:
"Soylent Green - It's my kind of people!!"
"Soylent Green - Now with more girls!"
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