Profiteering based on the sale of a commodity which is essential to life and basic human comfort is outrageous. Nationalisation would end this.

Re-nationalise energy and let’s have it work for the public once again and not the greedy shareholders and energy companies.

Time to repair the damage the last Tory government did. I wonder if they are brave enough?

Energy is too important to be a wealth provider for shareholders of private companies.

This needs to happen. The greedy capitalists have taken the rug from under us and left fellow members of our nation with the difficult choice of heating or eating.

Trusting energy companies to run their businesses for the benefit of customers is naive. Privatisation means profits first and last.

It should never have been privatised in the first place.

these are necessities not luxuries, so the price needs to be reasonable

stop private companies profiting at the people’s expense when so many are in ‘fuel poverty’

Re-nationalisation is the only rational path to follow. Our power is going to capitalists abroad.

Let’s bring an end to the extortion racket that is operated by the power companies.

Crooks every one of them.

It should never have been privatised.

Great campaign. How to achieve it needs to be thought through carefully, but there has to be a better way of doing these things than we have at present. More imagination.

All utilities should belong to the people, not profit-making private companies.

Electricity and gas are now a vital part of our everyday lives. It is morally wrong to profit from something the people are so dependant on.

Private profit should never have been put before public service.

Re-nationalise and invest profits instead of paying out to shareholders.

I have worked all my life and receive no benefits. At 64, I am sitting at home wearing three sweaters as I type this. Fuel supplies should never have been privatised.

Light and heat are basic human needs and profits should not be made from their provision.

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

It is obscene for anyone (including the government with VAT) and especially foreigners to make money from the sale of domestic fuel. Privatisation is essential.

This has been waiting to be done, so many thanks for starting this petition. Energy and water have to be in the hands of the people, not profit-making companies.

Thatcher’s legacy needs to be addressed.

I fully support the re-nationalisation of our energy.

Current events. Enough said.

Enough is enough. People first, not profit.

Fantastic idea.

The cost of energy is going to be of increasing significance. People must make themselves heard.

There are some services and utilities that are too important to be in private hands, energy, health, education amongst them.