Star comment: Good aim but shot may not be on target But perhaps it should not be so much of a surprise that a politician is attempting to tap in to popular sentiment -- that sentiment being that in a time of very low inflation, the energy companies are ripping consumers off with successive huge price hikes. It is a gamble. History is littered with examples of governments which tried to mess with the markets and got stung as a result. The markets are by their very nature unruly and dynamic, and highly resistant to attempts to tame and control them. Which is the real Shropshire? Is it the Shropshire which sees the retail parks so busy at weekends that they are a traffic nightmare? Or is it the Shropshire in which hundreds of people are so hard up and finding it so difficult to make ends meet that they are being given emergency food parcels? The toll wrought by the ravages of alcohol in Shropshire is akin to that from a war. Comments for: "Star comment: Good aim but shot may not be on target" Dio October 18, 2012 12:26 The problem I see with this move is that the cheapest deal available at the time may not be the cheapest deal in the long run. I have switched often, but the last couple of years have stayed with EON - not that I am actually recommending them specifically. But from last year they automatically put me on their