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Josie Clarke

MP warns of ‘blatant profiteering’ among home heating oil suppliers

A fuel tanker making a delivery of domestic heating oil (Alamy/PA) -

Heating oil suppliers are “blatantly profiteering” from the Middle East conflict by doubling their prices for households, an MP has told the competition watchdog.

Gordon and Buchan Conservative MP Harriet Cross has written to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) calling for an investigation as well as to Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to request the Government helps households who cannot afford the sudden price hikes.

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