BBC News - British Gas profits jump by 58% to record high‏

I heard about this on the news last night. What struck me most about it was the inability of the government to do anything other than talk about it. "we'd like to see X, Y, Z happen" but are powerless to actually see it happen. Ahh yes, that would be the efficient market, which is so efficient and so wonderful and is never wrong. Bollocks. Get the government involved in the market rather than reams of regulatory beau racy which does the grand total of fuck all