Lazy Energy Secretary to blame for high energy bills, say domestic customers

From The Daily Mail:

Millions of hard-up householders have risked insulting Chris Huhne by saying that he is to blame for high energy bills.

Families said that the Energy Secretary 'does not allow energy companies to bother' to hunt for the cheapest sources of fuel, but would rather spend more time making them look for hugely overpriced windmills and wrecking what's left of the UK's heavy industry with a Carbon Tax.

They also said the Energy Secretary could save up to £3,000 in legal fees if he didn't get involved in speeding incidents and could use the spare money to go on a short weekend mini-break with the woman he dumped his wife for.

Domestic energy users said: "He frankly spends less time shopping around for an energy source that's on average more than £500 a year cheaper than what we are being forced to buy than he does shopping around for a £250 toaster from the John Lewis list. Or for something like £250 billion's worth of windmills and other green tomfoolery. If he got that in perspective and said, 'OK, we are going to save a huge amount of money shopping around' [we] could save very substantial amounts of money,' they said in an interview with the Times.

Households said Mr Huhne spends 85 per cent of his time dreaming up new ways of making gas and electricity eye-wateringly expensive, and challenged him not to 'just sit back and take all the bungs from the windmill and power lobbies and succumb to the myth that all sources of energy cost the same'. Their comments came after energy firm EDF announced a 15.4 per cent jump in gas tariffs as it became the last of the major suppliers to put up prices...