[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Generating power requires fuel so the rich will pay just as much for that (on a pound for pound basis) as the "poor". I certainly don't approve of subsidising fuel bills as that just encourages waste.

Fuel will increasingly become a greater and greater part of weekly budgets for everybody as food was once. Nobody will be able to throw it away recklessly as we all have been doing up til now.

Free insulation grants for the needy are available but for the rest of us there's no alternative but to be economical and pay up when the bills come in.

It's more likely to be a choice between being warm and cable TV or gabbing incessantly on a mobile.

If I had a choice between being warm and cable TV, I would pick being warm!