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Belasting de de energiereuzen en rekeningen van de besnoeiingsbrandstof

Zaterdag, 2 Augustus, 2008
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De bedrijven maken miljarden terwijl onze stijging van brandstofprijzen meer dan 20 percenten, schrijft Sadie Robinson

Miljoenen mensen over Groot-Brittannië worstelen met de stijgende rekeningen van de huishoudenenergie. De overheid kon handelen om de pijn te verlichten door olie en gasfirma's te belasten, of een grens op te leggen aan prijsstijgingen. In plaats daarvan weigert het om om het even wat te doen die winsten zou berokkenen.

Energie van het EOF hief vorige week zijn prijzen opnieuw - door 22 percenten voor gas en 17 percenten voor elektriciteit op. Gemiddeld hebben de klanten van het EOF hun rekeningen met meer dan 33 percenten sinds het begin van het jaar zien toenemen. De Britse klanten van het Gas hebben hun gasrekeningen met 77 percenten en elektriciteitsrekeningen door 74 percenten sinds 2003 zien toenemen.

Deze energiebedrijven beweren dat de toenemende kosten hen dwingen om prijzen op te heffen. Maar gebruiken zij in feite toenemende goederenprijzen als verontschuldiging tot hark in de winsten.

Deze weekolie reuzeBP rapporteerde dat zijn winsten voor de eerste zes maanden van het jaar waren gestegen met 23 percenten aan £6.7 miljard.

Het Britse Gas, gepast om zijn winsten op Donderdag aan te kondigen, verwacht winsten van tussen £100 en £200 miljoen. In 2007 hief het prijzen op om zijn winsten door obscene 500 percenten op te voeren.

Centrica, de moedermaatschappij van Brits Gas, denkt om voorbelastingswinsten van £880 miljoen voor de eerste helft van dit jaar aan te kondigen.

In scherp contrast aan deze rijkdom, leven meer dan 4.5 miljoen mensen in Groot-Brittannië reeds in „brandstofarmoede“ - bestedend meer dan 10 percenten van hun inkomen aan energie. Dit cijfer wordt geplaatst aan stijging door wankelende 50 percenten aangezien de energiebedrijven houden opheffend prijzen.

De gewone mensen zien enkel ook toenemende schuld onder ogen bovenop de prijsstijgingen blijven. Rond 6.8 miljoen huishoudens in Groot-Brittannië zijn in schuld aan hun energieleverancier. De totale persoonlijke schuld neemt nu met een gemiddelde £1 miljoen om de vijf minuten toe.

Het kan de hoogte van de zomer zijn, maar reeds zijn de mensen zich ongerust maakt over hoe zij de komende winter zullen overleven.

De armoede van de brandstof leidt tot de sterfgevallen van tussen 20.000 en 50.000 mensen in Groot-Brittannië elke winter. Meer dan één in drie gepensioneerdehuishoudens zou in brandstofarmoede tegen het eind van het jaar moeten zijn.

Centrica’s managing director Jake Ulrich – who receives a salary of £1,033,000 a year – admits that fuel price rises are “going to hit people hard”. Fortunately he has advice for how people can soften the blow – they should wear “two jumpers instead of one”.

The bosses and the government are completely removed from the reality of life for ordinary people.

The government votes to keep lavish expenses for MPs – but it refuses to implement even the most minor measures that could limit the hardship faced by ordinary people.

The parliamentary business and enterprise committee has investigated the energy market in light of the current crisis.

But its conclusion is that the market is not functioning efficiently enough and that we need more “liberalisation”.

In the face of the massive political crisis that Gordon Brown now faces, some argue that he is simply a victim of a global economic recession that is pushing up the cost of living.

The massive unpopularity of New Labour following the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and its constant neoliberal attacks on working people is conveniently forgotten. Brown is portrayed as powerless in the face of the global economy.

Response

It is true that energy and food price rises are fuelling anger with the government. But what people are really angry about is the government’s response.

Brown is not powerless. There are many things he could do to ease the burden on working class people. He could implement a windfall tax on the energy companies. He could increase corporation tax. He could impose a limit on the amount that firms can raise energy prices.

But instead of this New Labour has repeatedly cut corporation tax, which currently stands at just 28 percent.

The People Before Profit Charter puts forward demands that would stop ordinary people sinking deeper into poverty.

As well as the demands to tax corporate profits, the charter calls for an end to Brown’s 2 percent pay limit on public sector workers, the abolition of tax on fuel and energy for old people and the poor, and the restoration of the link between state pensions and average earnings.

New Labour is doing none of these things because it defends the interests of the rich and business.

Making sure that workers don’t pay for the crisis means building resistance on the ground. The People Before Profit Charter can help mobilise that resistance.



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