A FREEZE on energy prices? Well, something needs to be done as costs go up and incomes stand still.

Now after just the mention of a price freeze, the energy companies’ answer is to resort to the threat of power cuts. This despite their current considerable profits, which will probably still continue to rise even with a price freeze.

Instead of the threats, would it not be better and a good thing if they volunteered a freeze and a cap on their profits for two years? What an outrageous suggestion, I can see their hair turning white at even such a thought. At one time the price of energy was controlled for the benefit of the consumers: householders, industry and business.

The difference then was that we owned our own energy companies, regretfully not now. We were once Great Britain, now we are ‘Poor Britain’, uncomfortably at the mercy of so many foreign energy owners and suppliers. JOHN FRAY

London Road

Wheatley