The Curmudgeon

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

At Least Hypothermia Doesn't Push Up Inflation

Choice and efficiency being the watchwords of privatised utilities, the energy companies will probably choose to increase their prices again before the year is out. For maximum efficiency, the price rises will most likely take place "during the autumn, just as consumers are turning on the heating", and will be targeted for particular impact on society's most expendable members. The wholesale prices for electricity and gas have risen by twenty-six per cent in the past three months, which may be why Gordon and his brother Andy and their chum Nicky are in such a hurry to get all the world glowing with healthy radioactivity. Not all of the wholesale increases have yet been passed on to consumers, which may be why E.On can afford to spend thirty-two million sweetening the FA Cup and practically one-seventh of that amount helping pensioners pay less provided they do it in a fashion agreeable to E.On.

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