Well, wait for the gas shortages to see...

just how disgusting the pandering to big business has become:

From The Guardian...

"Industry has been promised that the government will be 'flexible' about enforcing environmental rules on firms forced to switch to dirty fuels this winter if their gas is cut off.

As the DTI prepares to hold the latest of a series of crisis-meetings with business groups this week, firms concerned about their energy supplies have been given the mobile phone number of a 'fuel switching coordinator' at the Environment Agency, who will advise them about what to do if the taps are turned off.

'We have asked the Environment Agency and they will consider flexibility, so that the winter doesn't have to be any harder than it has to be,' said a DTI spokesman."

"With predictions of a cold winter, and gas prices at record highs, industry has repeatedly warned that users could run short. The 'spot' price of gas - the price for immediate delivery - doubled last week. CBI director general Digby Jones has raised the spectre of a 'three-day week', and the Prime Minister was forced to admit in the Commons that 'there will be difficulties with prices'.

A DTI spokesman said this was a 'transition year' - gas production from British fields has fallen faster than the government had predicted, and the infrastructure is not yet in place for large-scale, low-cost importing of gas from overseas. Meanwhile, the heavily regulated European gas industry has made it hard for British businesses to access foreign supplies."

Hahahahahhaa....good to see we are all bailing industry out for their f**k ups

Posted By: Hertz van Rental on November 29th 2005 at 16:31:40

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