Oh G-d, it just never stops (3)

Fresh on the back of the government's lunatic scheme to add twenty or thirty per cent to household fuel bills as part of a vain attempt to turn the economic clock back two centuries (see previous post), comes this from the BBC:

Rising unemployment and higher energy prices are likely to push hundreds of thousands more homes into fuel poverty, a key government advisory body says. The Fuel Poverty Advisory Group (FPAG) says about 4m households in England are already in fuel poverty, spending more than 10% of their income on energy. And it has urged ministers to set out a detailed plan for meeting their own target of ending the problem by 2016. The government says it has spent £20bn on cutting fuel poverty since 2000...

NB, £20 billion divided by nine years divided by 4 million households = £555 per household per annum, which is bugger all compared to the £16,000 it intends to take from each and every one of us and channel into the hands of whichever "green technology" companies have been lobbying hardest in Brussels and Whitehall.