Experts today blasted government plans to force households onto electricity by hiking their gas bills.
Ministers are set to change subsidy rules as part of their Net Zero strategy which will see gas bills increase by £100 a year for millions of households while reducing the cost of electricity.
Heat pumps are among the few viable options to gas boilers to heating a home, but they come at an exorbitant cost – as much as £13,000 to install, it has previously been estimated.
I’m not spending £13k on a noisy, inefficient system when I have a decent gas boiler that is still under warranty. I profoundly resent this bullying, because that is what it is. But I will not be manipulated or bullied into compliance. See also, covid vaccines. What we have here is a supposedly Conservative government, using extortion to coerce us into buying a useless system in order to satisfy their fetish for net zero – a stupid, insane fantasy based on junk science.
Well, no. Not doing it. I’ll take the hit of £100 per annum. Of course if enough of us do it, they will up the ante, but if they do that enough, expect a backlash. The British people will only take so much and I suspect that along with ULEZ we are reaching that limit.
But Pimlico Plumbers founder Charlie Mullins said today that there simply were not enough trained engineers to remove to ‘take the old stuff out or put the new systems in’.
Mr Mullins, who sold his business in 2021, added that the price of engineers would also increase because the demand for callouts would be so high.
He told MailOnline today: ‘It’s the poor people who are going to suffer. It’s a bad policy, it’s again penalising households.
‘Talk about £100 a year, but that’s only an estimate – the more gas you use, the higher it’s going to be. I think it’s quite a cheek that they’re doing it.
Even that twat’s on the right side of the argument.
I don’t know about you, but my electricity bill is a lot higher than the gas bill. I mean 4 times as much.
I have 2 boilers in perfect condition (it’s a big house), and the electric underfloor heating is switched off or set very low in the few rooms I put it in. The temperature in the house is set at 18 morning and evening, otherwise it is switched off. We have a wood stove which works 12 hours a day at weekends.
It reminds me of the early 80s when I came here and heating was a luxury.
All they’re doing is impoverish us and we let them do it.
I predict a strong market in ‘spares’ and ‘second hand’ gas boilers to keep them running as long as possible.
Plus instead of making gas more expensive each year, why not make electricity cheaper each year? Or would that reduce government revenue? Bandits used to wear masks…
Do they actually want to crash and burn at the next election? Are they so detached from reality that they think that this kind of stuff is popular?
But if Labour back this scheme (and they have always been keen on greater control of the population) then the inclination of the next Government is already set.
I think the answers are ‘yes’ and ‘yes’…
They probably expect to crash and burn whatever they do now – the lockdown files ought to see to that irrespective of anything else. They might as well do all they can to please the WEF types that could see them, individually, into sinecures after their parliamentary careers disappear.
That.
That’s what I can’t understand.
A perfectly viable “way out” that a 4 year old can understand would be to simply stop talking about this green communism and “forget” about any enforcement. People would understand and might even start to look more favourably on any party that did.
Doing absolutely nothing and gaining popularity. If even that is beyond their ken, then they really, truly are beyond any “help”.
If you can’t afford the current bills, how can you afford to put a new system in. I work in the care system, most colleagues are simply not using their heating unless it’s really cold.
Plus most houses are not suitable as there isn’t the correct distance from a neighbours property to install it. What about flats how is that going to work. Can’t see the Tories getting in next election but do worry about the opposition as well.
What opposition? Both Tories and Labour are singing from the same hymn sheet. Between them they seem hell bent on driving this country to penuary. A pox on them all.
We can only hope the tipping point arrives soon and that the public start rebelling like the French and Dutch. The upcoming local elections will be worth a close watch.
About the French…don’t think they are rebelling against any of the ecological disasters that are being foisted on them as well.
In short, they’re rebelling against not being paid money the country doesn’t have. Bastiat wrote very justly that the state is that fantasy where everyone lives at the expense of everyone else 170 years ago, it is still true today. They are not rebelling against less state, but for more of it.
Having lived in France, I concur. They desperately need a Thatcherite revolution, but I don’t see that happening any time soon.
https://www.homebuilding.co.uk/news/bosch-tells-homeowners-heat-pumps-dont-work-in-old-homes?