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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fe02ca31-464d-4c67-af1e-a746605bd0b0/9BED23B8-CB61-4684-B78B-459F46AC9DA2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/01/energy_rip-off.php" href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/01/energy_rip-off.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.treehugger.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/01/energy_rip-off.php">For the Brits in our audience who may have being wondering if they had ever been swindled by their energy companies, we have some bad news: you were right. An <A _base_ href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3177612.ece">investigation</A> by the <EM>Sunday Times</EM> has revealed that 6 of Britain's largest energy companies have been regularly quashing competition to raise prices and make huge profits - upwards of £4.5 billion, or roughly $8.8 billion.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/01/energy_rip-off.php"><P>Some of the illegal practices the companies are alleged to have engaged in include: charging loyal customers much more than those who switch; supporting costly and time-consuming accreditation for new firms to stifle competition; and raising/lowering tariffs in step within weeks to keep prices in line.</p> <P>It's hard enough trying to push honest players in the energy sector to pursue more renewable sources. If we are to assume such scams are more widespread (and who's to say they're not), it's no wonder effecting meaningful change has proven so arduous.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9BED23B8-CB61-4684-B78B-459F46AC9DA2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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