Not everyone has the ability to access information on cheaper deals. The result is, as in so many other areas, that those least able to afford it end up paying most.

Today’s report on the great energy rip-off sums it up really; Switch continually or get overcharged. We are not the idiots they take us for.

More power to your elbow. Something needs to be done to stop this profiteering on something that people rely on.

More money for the rich and the poor suffer.

Price rises due to increased commodity costs are rapidly passed on in full by the Big Six to consumers. Cost reductions are not. They are exploiting the consumer.

People would be happier paying tax if the essential services were to be or stay nationalised.

Power for the people and to the people – people power. as John Lennon put it – Love and Peace.

Fuel should be at cost and not be for profit.

The water companies should also be taken back into public ownership. Water is a vital resource for everyone. The notion that it can be owned by anyone is obscene.

Energy is infrastructure, and this is the bedrock of national security.

Market forces have left this country with the prospect of being unable to meet our energy requirements in the next few years.

We were conned by the Conservatives. Profiteering at public expense by these cartels is evident. We must have not-for-profit railways and all utilities.

Privatisation of Britain’s public services has been a disaster for consumers, the environment and the economy.

Why has it taken so long to get started? The Tories are always fast enough pushing their privatisation schemes through parliament without asking for anyone’s opinions.

One of the best things for UK people and UK finance would be the re-nationalisation of power and railways.

Maggie Sold off the taxpayers’ property without their permission, leading to the chaos and profiteering, substandard maintenance and horrendous price Increases.

Let’s get rid of the shareholders.

Let us return to a fair sharing of wealth and freedom.

At the very least do away with a daily standing charge.

I’m sat in a cold freezing room writing this with my feet in the cat box, just to keep some warmth and circulation going.

Energy profits should be invested in energy re-vitalisation, not to line the pockets of company bosses and shareholders.

Enough of these cartels. They do nothing for our country.

Something as essential as our energy should not be in private hands.

This issue is far too important to be left to multinationals who put profit before people and don’t care about driving customers into poverty and despair.

Not a moment before time. I have just moved gas supply to join electricity at Good Energy, 100% renewable provider. Not another penny to British Gas for me.

The energy industry is a public service and should be run as such, not for profit.

We need to re-think how our power is produced, by developing local power production rather than the out-dated transportation of power across the country by pylons.

It’s time for action. People need heat and light to survive.

Utilities are basic necessities and should be run for the benefit of the public, not shareholders.

Socialism was defeated from 1979 onwards. I was born in 1936 and it is time to restore it because of present day poverty and inequality.