Dundee LibDems agree with call for energy firms to hand back billions of 'excess profits' to needy customers
Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Wednesday 20th February) gave its strong support to LibDem Leader Nick Clegg MP in challenging Prime Minister Gordon Brown to act against "scandalous profiteering" by energy companies.
Highlighting that 25,000 people are predicted to die from the cold this winter alone, Mr Clegg asked the Prime Minister:
"Does he realise those companies stand to make a £9 billion windfall profit from the European emissions trading scheme? Does he agree that that excess profit, equivalent to about £360 for every British family in this country, should be handed back to the neediest customers through lower energy prices?"
Locally, here in Dundee, LibDem councillor for Strathmartine, Cllr Helen Dick said, "Nick Clegg is right to highlight the profiteering by the energy companies. The Westminster Labour Government has lost sight of the plight of the least affluent in society, for whom energy costs are a disproportionally large part of their income."