British Gas trimmed gas tariffs by 5 per cent last month but Mr Conn said: "The overall cost of gas that we're supplying to people will come down over time, and that should mean that we will be able to pass on further reductions to customers".
The very company that figuratively brought the wolf to Europe's door over the past week by trimming gas supplies has been warning about the consequences of fracking as an alternative to Russian natural gas.
By the same token, he had supported a regional cap-and-trade scheme to trim greenhouse-gas emissions in Massachusetts before renouncing it late in his governorship.
Contrary to images of "going back to the Stone Age," this form of energy efficiency actually increases the levels of illumination (and thus literacy), while trimming greenhouse gas emissions, indoor air pollution and energy bills that mire the poor in poverty.
Governments hope it might help to trim both greenhouse-gas emissions and waste-management costs.
According to the Energy Information Adminstration, drilling in ANWR would trim the price of gas by 3.5 cents a gallon in twenty years, and according to the National Resources Defense Council, drilling in all offshore areas might eventually cut the price of gas by four cents a gallon at most.
Investment in new projects can, of course, be trimmed, but oil and gas exploration and production is a long-term business.
Once the procession of commuter pickups with their flaring headlights had passed, everything was silent and dark — the groomed shops on the main street, the courthouse, the gas stations trimmed with hedges, the Gothic prep school behind the lake.
Once the procession of commuter pickups with their flaring headlights had passed, everything was silent and dark the groomed shops on the main street, the courthouse, the gas stations trimmed with hedges, the Gothic prep school behind the lake.
British Gas is reducing gas prices by 10% later this month, while SSE will trim electricity bills by 9% and gas prices by 4% towards the end of March.
