Energy suppliers have told Ed Miliband to increase the cost of gas boilers to boost the uptake of heat pumps and electric vehicles – because nothing says ‘good product’ like deliberately increasing the prices of competitors. The Telegraph has more.
In a letter to the Energy Secretary, suppliers including EDF, EOn, Octopus and OVO warned that a typical household paid four times as much per year in levies on electricity usage than on gas usage.
This makes it less financially attractive to switch to electrically-powered heating and transport, they said, even though Ministers want households to adopt EVs and heat pumps to help reduce carbon emissions and Britain’s dependence on natural gas.
The suppliers, supported by charities including Citizens Advice and National Energy Action, called on Mr Miliband to urgently review the system and “rebalance” levies so that they were more evenly spread between electricity and gas usage.
In practice, this would mean charges on gas bills would have to go up for millions of households.
The intervention came as the cap on a typical dual-fuel household energy bill rose by £111 a year to £1,849 on Tuesday.
In their letter to Mr Miliband, around 30 organisations including suppliers, investors, industry associations, and charities in the Electrify Britain campaign said: “British people and industry are paying some of the highest electricity prices in the world.
“We ask that you initiate a consultation process to urgently address Britain’s high energy bills. This should include policy levy reform.
“If the Government wants people to adopt electric cookers, heating and cars, it must stop giving older technologies and fossil fuels a de facto subsidy over electricity.”
While a typical household with a gas boiler pays about £250 per year in levies, this would rise to £480 per year if they adopted a heat pump. The letter’s signatories argued this makes no sense, given that using electricity is four times more energy-efficient than burning gas.
The Government has been examining potential reforms of green levies on energy bills for years, with a review initially started under the previous Conservative administration. However, the various options all look politically difficult.
One option often favoured by energy companies is to abolish the levies altogether and fund Net Zero schemes from general taxation instead. This would mean households progressively pay more depending on their income.
However, that would require Chancellor Rachel Reeves to break Labour’s promise not to raise taxes on working people. The suppliers admitted in their letter the “current economic environment” meant this was “likely not possible”.
Alternative options include either shifting specific levies over from electricity bills to gas bills, or combining the cost of all levies into a single pot and then deciding how the total should be split. …
On Tuesday, a spokesman for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said: “We are looking at a range of options for longer term energy market reform, including the rebalancing of gas and electricity prices, with the impact on consumers at the heart of our approach. We will set out further details in due course.”
The letter coincided with the reintroduction of the so-called boiler tax scheme, officially known as the Clean Heat Market Mechanism. This requires suppliers of UK domestic gas or oil boilers to increase their share of heat pump sales each year between now and 2029 – or face fines potentially totalling millions of pounds.
It was dubbed the boiler tax because the fines could only have been paid by increasing the price of boilers by an estimated £120.
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Now let’s contrast this comical farce to the crimes that evil gnome Fauci actually did commit, as per the previous article on here. Because if there were any justice, *that* should’ve been your ”trial of the century”. But as I’m sure we all know, hell will freeze over before he sees the inside of a prison cell. A bit more dirt on Mr Untouchable. No wonder he always comes off as so chuffing arrogant;
”During the pandemic, the American people started to feel that Big Government was very cozy with Big Pharma.
Now we know just how close they were.
New data from the National Institutes of Health reveals the agency and its scientists collected $710 million in royalties during the pandemic, from late 2021 through 2023. These are payments made by private companies, like pharmaceuticals, to license medical innovations from government scientists.
Almost all that cash — $690 million — went to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), the subagency led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and 260 of its scientists.”
https://nypost.com/2024/06/02/opinion/nih-scientists-made-710m-in-royalties-from-drug-makers-a-fact-they-tried-to-hide/
It was a sham trial from the very beginning but it will backfire on corrupt Biden. If America wants to see a genuine lifelong criminal they only need to look at the White House and take a glance at Ukraine and his sons laptop.
I hope Trump takes the pair of them to Court and slams the door behind them. Then again, Trump isn’t Biden so will just get on with the job he will, once again, be elected to do.
I’m not a mad fan of Trump but Biden is a corrupt man and long has been, his son is arguably worse. I recall the laughably named Democrats calling Trump a Warmonger. Trump never fired one shot. Biden started firing 30 days into his corrupt “Presidency”. He never did explain why, in some places, there were more votes than constituents.
That’s the left for you. Always accusing other people of being what they themselves are.
I hold no remit for Trump but honestly it will be worth seeing him re-elected just for the reaction. Since his conviction, his campaign (which I’m sure he has plenty of money to fund himself) has apparently been receiving millions in donations from the ‘little people’ incensed at what they have seen happen.
I hope it back fires but the NPC mob will believe anything Biden says.
I hope he fires back at those jibes from De Nero. He seems to be living up to his character in ‘Meet The Fockers’, a stooge for the military industrial complex.
So far, my experience has been that those who are happy that Trump has been convicted or don’t mind because they don’t really like him will not be able to explain what he has been convicted of. They can’t explain any of it. They are basically NPCs that have heard the sound bites about Trump being charged and convicted and act accordingly in strict NPC fashion.
Those who understand what has happened are horrified and very very worried.
That said, it’s not the worst thing that has happened in US presidential history. John Kennedy was murdered in what amounted to a coup. And his brother Robert also when he was about to become president. The US is still a bit rough around the edges when it comes to regime change. Not like the UK where they can depose not one but two Prime Ministers in a matter of weeks and it all looks like it’s been done by the rules.
Agree entirely but Biden is mad, deranged and senile. The fact he’s about to die makes him more dangerous than the average Potus.
Worse, I think he is surrounded by people pulling his strings who are actually wicked.
Guilty of spoiling the Liberal Progressive, One World Government, Climate Change Party, where the commies get to divvy up the planet while pretending they are saving it. They cannot have Trump coming along and withdrawing from any more climate treaties. In the sixties he would have been shot in his Lincoln Continental, but these days they gotta be a bit more subtle about it.
As the Babylon Bee put it: Donald Trump found guilty of being Donald Trump.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-verdict-us-civil-war/5858746
A good article from Global Research confirming Paul Homewood’s interpretation. An interview with the gorgeous Megyn Kelly also embedded.
This appalling abuse of the justice system really does put the USA on a par with Bannana Republics. How could they be so crude as to find The Donald guilty on unproven charges? Hopefully this doesn’t set the precedent for other Western nations although in our case we certainly are pushing the boundaries.
As Mark Steyn puts it. it is worse than a banana republic. This is not some backwater, this is supposed to be the helm of the free World.
I heard that the prostitute Stormy was calling for him to be jailed immediately. They must be getting desperate. Was he that bad a fu@k, I mean, she already got paid I assume the first time, and then after for hush money. That is one expensive prostitute. Go to Thailand and you will get a much better deal.
“Trump never fired one shot. Biden started firing 30 days into his corrupt “Presidency”…
And the American MSM, which along with BBCs Trusted News Initiative, must be busted up as illegal info monopoly and racket, began calling for his Impeachment literally on his 2017 Inauguration Day.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/20/the-campaign-to-impeach-president-trump-has
Some simple facts to remember — It is a Democrat State — and a Democrat judge who is on record wanting to take him down with a daughter that sells merchandice in the downfall of Trump. Only in America as they say!
“ But astonishingly, here in Britain the media almost to a man has ignored them all and instead lazily assumed that Trump must have committed a crime.”
I don’t find that at all astonishing. Almost everyone I know dislikes Trump, thinks he is dangerous or a fascist or something- I doubt any of them could name a single policy decision of his though. Even people I know who probably vote Tory here view him with disdain, probably not smarmy enough and too brash, not at all “respectable”.
Make no mistake. God sent President Trump