RE Green energy – it is actually moving on apace. However we do need to invest in the products before it improves to the next step – otherwise how will companies do the research and development?

Oil and gas have hit their peak in research and develpment, yet they get the most of this Government’s energy subsidies.

Around £4 billion is given, plus many tax breaks to these companies. Yet they are highly profitable – if we complain about bus company subsidy then we must surely scrutinise how fossilbased energy has been overlooked.

Add into this that the oil firms are now suspected of price fixing.

Will motorists get their money back? Probably not.

Then I read that Southampton City Council is to get funding from the Government to limit fuel-poverty. Would it not be more practical for them to spend said money on putting solar panels on every council property and tenancy instead? Also expand the geothermal energy around the city. The money saved in electricity would surely exceed the money spent on motor fuel.

In my mind these are questions that need to be explored.

D J COOK, Southampton.