You're Off Your Head If You Think Huhne's Demise Will Lower Fuel Prices!

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If anyone in business thinks that today’s resignation of Chris Huhne as Energy Secretary will change the climate as far as energy prices and emission fines they must be completely off their heads. . . .

February 3, 2012 | Charlie Mullins

If anyone in business thinks that today’s resignation of Chris Huhne as Energy Secretary will change the climate as far as energy prices and emission fines they must be completely off their heads.
Whatever the truth of the allegations this is a colossal waste of public money, on what looks like a domestic dispute to me, but politically it’s not going to make an iota of difference as far as government policy on energy prices is concerned.
If as expected Mr Huhne is replaced by party colleague Ed Davey, the coalition will be replacing one slightly roguish, independently minded Lib Dem with another. And much as it makes good newspaper copy to suggest we should take ‘tea with the Taliban’, it’s cloud cuckoo land stuff to imagine fuel prices are likely to plummet, and Low Emission Zones will be scrapped, just because the name on the office door has!