The Curmudgeon

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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Speaking Tentative Proposals to Power, More or Less

The Department for Eternally Fleeing Responsibility for Anything has threatened to force energy companies to spend some of their profits improving the carbon footprints of "customers" - those wealthy but irresponsible types who choose to buy energy, rather than choosing to help the environment by eating raw food in outdoor-temperature homes. The proposals are "expected to lead to lower fuel bills for pensioners" and "should ... offer families a chance to cut their bills as a result of reducing energy use", provided one has a journalist's faith in the veracity of a New New Labour press release. The Minister for Doable Greenness, Hilary Benn, observed that "It's right that energy companies should play their part in cutting carbon emissions", which must be why they have been obliged to spend less than a hundred and fifty million a year since 2002 on playing just that. Assuming that the proposals which eventually go through match the ones in the press release, this obligation will now rise to a thousand million a year for three years. However, now that the Glorious Successor seems definitely to have settled into the role Edwina Currie's intimate friend played to Margaret Thatcher - the gutless wonder following the sanctimonious psychopath - it will be interesting to see how doable it will all become should the energy companies decide, against all precedent, that environmental concerns and the welfare of the vulnerable ought to take second place to corporate profit and directors' bonuses.

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