{"id":1082,"date":"2008-09-05T13:45:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T12:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2008-09-05T13:45:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T12:45:34","slug":"energy-suppliers-ripping-us-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Energy suppliers ripping us off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Local Government Association, a cross-party organisation representing more than 400 councils in England and Wales, commissioned independent experts SQW energy to investigate the published financial statements of the six major energy suppliers.  You can see the results <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lga.gov.uk\/lga\/aio\/970974\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nin summary, the analysis found that dividend payments have risen from \u00a31.378 billion in 2006 to \u00a31.635 billion in 2007, an increase of \u00a3257 million or 19%  and equivalent to \u00a375 per household. Clearly the main energy companies are using their windfall profits, not for investment as they claim but, to raise dividends to shareholders.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, with the record price rises and no extra fuel payments it\u2019s estimated that up to 6M households will be in fuel poverty this winter. The Government must act and Gordon Brown&#8217;s response to this crisis will be a key factor in whether or not he survives as Prime Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Local Government Association, a cross-party organisation representing more than 400 councils in England and Wales, commissioned independent experts SQW energy to investigate the published financial statements of the six major energy suppliers. You can see the results here. in summary, the analysis found that dividend payments have risen from \u00a31.378 billion in 2006 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}