in terms of whether suppliers are profiteering on this, a lot of them have gone under because of the pressure of having to deal with picking up the rising wholesale price and for six months not being able to pass that on to their consumers. british gas boss chris o shea saying on the bbc today that they are making a tiny profit on the retail side of things, where the big profits are coming in is on the generation side, that is where some of the political debate is lying, whether those arms of the energy companies should be taxed higher or not. just a quick thought on the thing of recording the meter readings. that rush to record readings yesterday. does it make much of a difference? the readings obviously that are input from today are reflective