Summary
GORDON BROWN?S [pounds]1bn package to cut soaring fuel bills appeared to be in trouble last night amid confusion over whether the energy giants would pass on their higher costs by pushing up bills.
The Association of Electricity Producers (AEP) initially dismissed the Prime Minister?s pledge that the cost of making homes more energy-efficient would not be passed on as ?too sweeping?, adding: ?The bill to some extent always ends up with the customer. ? But a statement released by the same organisation minutes later suggested that the costs would not be passed on to the customer after all.See the full content of this document
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Heat?S On Brown Over Energy Plan
One Labour ministerial aide dismissed the [pounds]910m squeezed out of energy companies to fund the package as worth only 20p per week per household, admitting: ...
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