This winter many people will again be unable to afford
to heat their homes. Every year, many old people die as a result of energy
poverty. We have a moral duty to put a stop to this. But successive Governments
have been making the situation worse.
Listen to the Establishment parties on energy: you'll
find they're all saying the same thing. They all support green taxes that cost
British households and industry £46
billion last year. They all back a
rigged energy market, which restricts consumer choice and prevents genuine
competition. And then they all blame the energy companies for driving up
prices.
The truth is that energy prices have been driven up by
politicians – and they have done it deliberately. In their obsession with global
warming, they have designed a system to cut energy use by raising
prices.
What the political class and their bureaucratic
buddies in Whitehall don't get is that the way to increase energy efficiency is
not to restrict the market, but embrace it.
A new report by
the Adam Smith Institute points the way forward: disruptive innovation can
reduce energy consumption and energy prices at the same time. Douglas Carswell - UKIP MP.
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