Rejected petition: Introduce a price cap on heating oil administered through Offgem.
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The price fluctuations that occur in heating oil especially in times of international crisis affect approximately 1.5 million households in the U.K. This petition wishes to level the playing field and afford the same protection to heating oil customers.
During the current Iran war crisis and the closing of the straights of Hormuz. Heating oil (kerosene) has more than doubled which highlights the issues of affordability for the average household. Although the current government have introduced a support package for very low income households it would seem grossly unfair that this is not afforded to all heating oil households. This petition seeks to level the playing field and afford the same protections electricity and gas households receive.
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:
Regulate companies supplying heating oil and LPG
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/764213We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.