Now is the time

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I SIT WRITING THE EDITORIAL this month shivering with cold in my home office.Today, in mid winter in this part of the world, I received my first power and light bills for the year 2009, and I was shocked beyond measure. In the latter part of last year, UK suppliers of gas and electricity decided - on mass - to increase prices to consumers by an unprecedented amount, some by as much as 50% (isn't that a cartel?). No amount of disloyal ducking and diving and swapping and changing of energy suppliers could avoid this wave of increases, even with the aid of the ingenious 'uswitch' and 'gocompare.com' websites.