Due to exorbitant energy prices - are we being conned?? Does anyone think this might work?
It is abundantly clear that the British Coalition Government have given the =91green light=92 to the rapacious and avaricious power companies and utilities (in fact to all the providers of commodities and services essential to human existence) to =91rip-off=92 the =91bio- mass=92 (for I am convinced this is the way we hapless British =91consumers=92 are viewed by the present government) to their heart=92s content and without constraint. The way the power companies have continued to escalate their prices is clear evidence that this is so. It is also evident that the so called regulator =91Ofgem=92 is =91in-bed=92 with the power utilities and certainly no friend of the consumer!
The latest announcement by Scottish Power of such a mammoth price hike deserves special attention. There is a way to fight back. Consider: There are five principal power companies, Scottish Power, EDF, British Gas, e-On and N Power who are clearly fixing prices by a cabalistic process of tacit price collusion (the so called =91Big -Five=92). Let us take Scottish Power as an example for our fight-back strategy.
We need to encourage every present customer to switch from Scottish Power to (say) N Power =96 and further to encourage every present customer to =91dump=92 their current supplier and also switch to N Power. If just 70% of customers did this the remaining five power companies would be quickly bankrupted and put out of business. Finally, towards the end of the process if at least 50% of the (new) N Power customers would purchase a minimum quantity of shares in that company to enable them (the customers) to vote at the company AGM or indeed force an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders with the sole objective to dispose of the present board of directors and chairman etc. and bring that company to its knees.
An elegant solution I think you would agree? The central difficulty would be to break through the passive and compliant mindset of the British public to persuade them that this strategy is greatly in their interest and is very worth pursuing! A further difficulty is how one may promote, disseminate and generally spread the message? I wonder if it might =91fly=92