Heat pumps are a pile of expensive shite.
The national drive for Britons to switch from traditional gas boilers to expensive heat pumps has sparked a fresh backlash from MPs and an industry leader. Ahead of a vote and potential rebellion from Conservative MPs, the Government is pressing ahead with its Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM) policy, which is due to come into force in 2024.
Mike Foster, CEO of Energy and Utilities Alliance (EUA), criticised the speed of plans to encourage Britons to replace their gas boilers, saying it would pass further costs onto consumers. He told Express.co.uk: “For the past year the boiler manufacturers have warned the Government about the impact their plans would have. They met with ministers.
The whole net zero ideology is insanity. I don’t say this as an example of rhetorical hyperbole – it is, to any rational person, an example of the triumph of cult-think over reality. We do not have a climate emergency and forcing people to install expensive, inefficient anachronisms will not have any effect on the climate whatsoever, yet these arseholes are pressing ahead despite reality staring them in the face. There shouldn’t be a parliamentary vote on the matter. How we heat our homes should be nothing to do with parliament.
“They showed them and officials their future business plans. They have invested in heat pump technologies and want to sell them but consumer demand simply isn’t there. At £13,000 a time compared to swapping a boiler for around £2,000, we understand why.”
See, also, EVs. There is also again replicated with the EV nonsense, the issue of practicality. You cannot fit solar panels or heat pumps to my home, just as you cannot – without extensive remodelling – fit a car charger to it. I am not alone by any means. That’s assuming that I wanted to, which I don’t because I’m not a deranged lunatic.
Dame Andrea Jenkyns echoed the EUA’s criticism with a plea for the Government to completely axe its “ludicrous” net zero approach. The MP for Morley and Outwood in West Yorkshire told Express.co.uk: “It is ludicrous to pile more financial pressure on both businesses and the consumer for the utopian quest for net zero. Let’s ditch net zero and let the British taxpayers decide how they want to heat their homes.”
Baboom-tish!
“When the Prime Minister issued his net zero re-set last September, he didn’t tell voters that his ministers were planning a boiler tax to penalise those households that replaced or modernised their boilers. The CHMM places an obligation on UK boiler manufacturers to sell a set number of heat pumps each year, regardless of whether consumers want them.
“They are fined for failing to meet the Whitehall-set target. These fines are then passed onto consumers who continue to buy boilers. Failure to meet the target incurs a £3,000 fine for every heat pump sale missed.”
Again, see EVs. I’m not buying something I don’t want, regardless of how much the government fines the manufactures or retailers. Indeed, a few fines might just concentrate minds and force a rebellion against this madness.
These are both examples of the kind of applied stupidity for which politicians are renowned. Don’t doubt, though, that if Liebour manage to win the next election it will only get worse: the would-be dictators have stupidity down to a fine art.
The fines are in the form of a tax. The boiler price will go up but I remember when I was hit with a £2K bill for my boiler. I wasn’t happy but wasn’t prepared to load the AK47 and go hunting politicians. This will be the same.
Now when Boiler manufacturers in the UK offshore all their manufacturing and make people unemployed that may make a difference. If they had an ounce of gumption they would all join together and do it in a controlled way so that when the about turn takes place they will be able to recover.
First i’ve heard of this proposed tax on normal boilers, any ideas when this latest lunacy is going to take place, because i’ll be getting my boiler man to chuck a new combi boiler on the wall just before it starts…same as thousands of others who don’t believe a single word they hear from our supposed betters any more.
Everything they come up with is bollocks.
According to a meme I saw a few days back it’s already in place! It was a picture of a supposedly “Confidential” letter from Worcester Bosch – to their distributors, by the looks of it. It explained the new tax (from Jan 1st) and that they were passing it on directly in the form of a £500 price hike…
Bugger, hope i’m late for my own funeral too.
My gas chap doesn’t join in with the mustafa W/Bosch hype, he chucked an Ideal combi on the wall for us about 7 or 8 years ago for a princely £1300 all in and its been running fine ever since with an annual checkover/service by him, i’ll be giving him a bell during the week see what the score is.
If its direct replacement hasn’t had a penalty for failing to comply imposed, yet, he can chuck another bugger on asap before the next unelected fool PM-for-a month bans the things altogether.
Mine’s a similar age. Ten year warranty. That’s got a couple of years to run. If it keeps going, that will suit me.
I paid £1800 in 2017 for a Worcester Bosch, 10yr warranty,once a year the company who installed it gives it some magical light treatment for 20 minutes. So far so good.
“The CHMM places an obligation on UK boiler manufacturers to sell a set number of heat pumps each year, regardless of whether consumers want them.”
As with electric cars, this stupid idea can’t possibly work. The manufacturers of regular boilers should band together and just say screw you were not doing it. Fortunately we got our new boiler just before this latest bit of lunacy got started.
The government cannot control the markets. I have a petrol car, a Lexus. It does not go wrong and I am keeping it. I have an old boiler that still heats my house very effectively. I will NOT ever consider a heat pump as they are noisy and inefficient. We need a sensible government which will jack in this green nonsense.
It is so obviously absurd to fine an organisation for the non occurrence of something that is out of their control. We have a problem with people in charge thinking that they know better when they so obviously don’t.
Indeed. You can’t force people to buy something they don’t want. I’ll never buy a heat pump. Not only because I object in principle, but you can’t fit one on my property. So now what?