How about paying for energy usage with, say, 3% income tax? The rich would pay more than the poor. Incentivise low usage by dropping the percentage.

Public services for people not profit.

Profit is not a dirty word – all businesses need it to survive, but what we have with the energy companies is pure unvarnished greed.

Fairness for all please, not just the rich.

Bring the power back to the people.

It’s about time the many stopped suffering, to line the pockets of the elite few.

Energy is an essential part of life. We shouldn’t be held to ransom by those who are only out for profit. Nationalise and reinvest the profits and/or reduce bills.

I transferred to the Co-op from British Gas and Immediately cut my energy costs by a third.

I support the campaign for a nationally owned energy service.

Energy is crucial to a country and its population, so why let foreign companies make a profit out of it and aid their economies to compete unfairly with the UK?

Giving the private sector monopolies is the most stupid thing, amongst many, the Tories ever did.

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

The promise that privatisation would bring lower prices and a better service is as false with rail as with water, energy and soon the post.

The energy rip-off needs to end now.

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

Current events. Enough said.

Return energy to public ownership.

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

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.

I would like to put my name to this petition and I actively support the campaign to bring back our energy network into public ownership.

Power to the many in the hands of the many.

It is worth trying, despite the hopelessness we all feel on these issues. See recent reports on how Iceland has resisted the power of banks and multinational corporations.

When the Tory government privatised utilities, they did not plan it out. It is a failed experiment which has only succeeded in making the man in the street suffer.

The supply of a universal commodity, such as energy, should be run on a non-profit basis.

Services for the people, not private profit.

I’m sick of these rip-off companies fleecing us.

The power companies’ directors and shareholders are just vultures feasting on the misery of people with no choice.

Why do we need the money-grabbing middle men? Give us back our energy industry and plough the profits back into the infrastructure, not into the pockets of shareholders.

I’m fed up with what should be national institutions being used as cash cows for a few rich fat cats.

Energy, rail and health are strategic resources that should be government controlled. We’ve already got health, so there are two to go.