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An Open Letter to Energy Companies
Dear Villein of the Power Company email account, I reply to your threatening email of today regarding my overdue balance. I’m not sure this is a monitored email account, but if it is, allow me to express my fucking disgust at your pushy demands for vast sums of money. Fuck your company and fuck your shareholders.
[“Motherfuckers!” I mumble into the neck of my oversized sweater.]
BP and Shell just posted record profits in the last year. £23 BILLION pounds profit at BP! Did they give you a raise in line with inflation, dear Villein? We both know the answer to that.
We pay more for energy in the UK than other countries around us by a whole hell of a lot. Gammons were worried about poor foreigners stealing our way of life but actually, we sold our energy companies to rich foreigners who don’t give a fuck about our lives, or even if we have lives.
Personally, I think this is daylight robbery for energy and if the answer is greener energy generation, I feel sure we have all been paying a green tax for at least fifteen years here. Where the fuck did that money go?
I hate the way privatisation has ruined this country’s whole infrastructure.
You private companies that profit from the status quo and the destruction of the planet can just eat the cost of your own…