It looks as if my previous post was slightly off the mark. The next election will not require a choice between the parties on the basis of voting for the one least likely to engineer a rapid economic recovery, in order to stave off an energy crisis. It now seems that if you vote for the Conservatives, you can have a wrecked economy and an energy crisis. Who said that political parties were all the...

Putin in further threat to gas supplies I have mentioned the problems that we face by being beholden to Kremlin Inc (Gazprom) on numerous occasions, yet our politicians seem so damned slow to move. We are in greater danger than ever of having no security over our energy supplies and very little in the way of

TWO Scottish power companies are to be investigated by the energy watchdog amid concerns of mis-selling of contracts to consumers, it was announced yesterday.

Right Democrat has this, from the University of Wisconsin's Daily Cardinal: We are in the midst of an energy crisis, and though the urgency has lessened for an energy solution since last summer because of lower gas prices and an economic recession, the problem is no less real. Although the economy will be President Obama’s chief concern in the coming months, our energy policy affects the economy...

Energy firms should compensate customers who have been mis-sold energy deals, a committee of MPs says.

A few days ago, The Daily Express reported that the EU was going to try to snaffle our energy supplies. BRITAIN’S vital North Sea oil and gas supplies are to be taken over by Europe under emergency plans revealed for the first time in Brussels yesterday. EU leaders are demanding control of British energy reserves to prevent power blackouts that have left millions of eastern Europeans without hea...

It is interesting to see, at last, some of the MSM catching up with the implications of the growing energy crisis, not least The Daily Mail which had a robust leaders on the subject yesterday.Rehearsing issues familiar to our readers, this paper declared: "One of the first duties of any government is to ensure that the lights stay on and the wheels keep turning." It then added: "It is no exaggerat...

RADICAL steps must be taken to safeguard UK power supplies and prevent growing numbers of people being hit with energy bills they cannot afford, a watchdog has warned.

A windfall tax on the profits of energy companies may become part of a new economic plan set to be unveiled in September, it was revealed today. A one-off tax on the increased profits of the energy companies was recently proposed by Tony Woodley, joint leader of the Unite union, but has been more widely backed after half year profits from leading energy giants were announced to be sharply increase...

Over at the Cato Institute blog, contributor Daniel Griswold argues that the US, the world's biggest user of energy, is not quite as dependent on energy from only a few nations as one might think. I agree. Energy "independence" sounds like a smart strategy if you fear that a handful of nations, run by thugs, have a heavy armlock on energy supplies. Fortunately, Mr Griswold argues, it is a bit...