No, I would not agree at all. I look at my bill, and I do not know whether the noble Baroness has looked at hers recently, and find that 20% stuck on the bill as a result of green policies and green taxes. It may be that gas contract prices have been rising, but spot prices, and indeed some contracts around the world, have been falling. The noble Baroness knows well that in the United States, for very special reasons which may become global reasons, the price of gas is about a quarter of what is here. So I do not agree with that proposition, and would certainly disagree with it even more in the future.
Energy Bill
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Lord Howell of Guildford
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 2 July 2013.
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