Letter: Flawed siting of 'green' electricity
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: It is a good idea for consumers to be allowed to choose electricity from renewable sources, but with price differences of perhaps 10 per cent, individuals would be likely to reject the burden of change being transferred from the electricity companies to themselves.
If VAT relief was debated as an option to close the price gap to more realistic levels, Labour would have the opportunity of demonstrating where they stand in the areas of progressive environmentalism and profit-oriented utilities.
MARK WALMSLEY
Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
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