Letters to the Editor: The capitalism crisis is holding energy prices to ransom

State ownership of utility companies and resources would help to restrain soaring household energy bills

Energy and security of supply must be regarded as a public service and a social good. Picture: Larry Cummins

The cost-of-living crisis and soaring energy bills will not be solved by handouts, tinkering around the edges, or by populist sound bites.

These developments have real and life changing consequences ranging from an increasing reliance on food banks, fuel poverty, financial pressures, physical and mental health crises, and malnutrition, to hypothermia.