A leading U.K. fuel poverty charity is predicting deaths to skyrocket this winter as over 5 million homes struggle to pay rising fuel bills.The Express is reporting that energy prices “have soared more than 80 per cent in the last five years,” and singles out British Gas for announcing a seven per cent hike when “the number of families struggling to pay their heating bills reaches 5.5 million and excess winter deaths this year are expected to be higher than ever.”What the article failed to explain, or even mention, is the primary reason energy costs have become so dangerously prohibitive in the U.K:  Green energy policy.According to British Gas managing director Phil Bentley, not only is the price of wholesale gas up since spring, but the company is also fighting the ever-increasing costs of meeting its “environmental obligations.”E.U. targets require the U.K. to produce 15 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, a sevenfold jump...(Read Full Post)