Muppet Miliband wants to ‘encourage’ folks to install these expensive monstrosities by beating us with his levy stick to the tune of £30 added to gas bills. Eliminating consumer choice is hardly the way to win over the electorate but essentially you and I will be deprived of our democratic right to choose what to buy to heat our homes.
Costlier to buy and fit than solar panels, like electric cars I’m not convinced that pumping up the neighbourhood is the answer to lowering energy bills but what do I know? Muppet Miliband clearly did not do his homework in the school holidays. Instead of snaffling all the chocolates from the advent calendar, he would have been better off taking a close look at demographical statistics to determine:
a) How many properties in the UK actually meet the internal/external space requirements needed to fit heat pumps.
b) How many households fall into the wealth bracket whereby they can actually afford to buy or run heat pumps.
It is all well and good saying you want households to get one of these things but ours and many others are not likely to meet the above criteria which means the people who should be benefitting from cheaper bills won’t be.
And even if you could get round the second point by being eligible for a Government grant to help with costs, you’d still have to find around £7,000 to part fund the project. Like all these things, I expect the qualifying criteria for any help from the Treasury is going to be set so tightly that you’d have more chance of getting a window seat on a rocket to the moon.
Why do you think there haven't been any tabloid reports about the success of the previous Government's Great British Insulation Scheme? I suspect it's because it was poorly publicised and there was little take up. How much was spent by the Gov on it and how many better insulated households who participated are now saving on their energy bills? Yep, no-one's reporting on that one are they?
So, if you want to saddle yourself with an unwanted eco-loan and higher electricity bills then by all means get a heat pump. Oh, did the papers fail to mention that heat pumps being an electrical gadget are expensive to run? I think that was buried in the small print along with the footie results on the back pages.
A spokesperson for the Dept of Energy Security & Net Zero said ‘Our plans to feather our nests and those of our cronies is paramount. We are taking action to increase bills because the chances of Britain being turned into a tropical paradise where heating becomes obsolete is zero and we’ve promised suppliers of renewable energy that we’d pick up the tab’.
My gas boiler is going nowhere. I am more than happy to pay £30 to keep a cheap, efficient power source to heat my home effectively and look forward to reading about how ‘successful’ this heat pump initiative has been in reducing our electricity bills later on in the year.
So, if you want to saddle yourself with an unwanted eco-loan and higher electricity bills then by all means get a heat pump. Oh, did the papers fail to mention that heat pumps being an electrical gadget are expensive to run? I think that was buried in the small print along with the footie results on the back pages.
A spokesperson for the Dept of Energy Security & Net Zero said ‘Our plans to feather our nests and those of our cronies is paramount. We are taking action to increase bills because the chances of Britain being turned into a tropical paradise where heating becomes obsolete is zero and we’ve promised suppliers of renewable energy that we’d pick up the tab’.
My gas boiler is going nowhere. I am more than happy to pay £30 to keep a cheap, efficient power source to heat my home effectively and look forward to reading about how ‘successful’ this heat pump initiative has been in reducing our electricity bills later on in the year.
