Energy bills need to fall in line with oil prices

Officials from a consumer watchdog group have become involved in a row over energy prices, after insisting that the price of energy usage needs to be falling in line with crude oil prices. Since the summer the price of a barrel of crude oil has plummeted by around 50%, but energy prices have gone up twice this year and not come back down. Energy giants have said that the price of wholesale energy is still high, hence the price of usage has not come down. Read more

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