News Round-Up
28 April 2024
by Will Jones
Should We Rename the Daily Sceptic the Daily Septic?
28 April 2024
Forced installation of heat pumps and 'smart meters' that allow external control of energy, forced entry into homes for energy assessments – the Energy Bill takes the creeping eco-totalitarianism to the next level.
Richard Littlejohn has written about the appalling new Energy Bill currently being rushed through Parliament, pointing out that, among other horrors, homeowners will be liable for jail for failing to install a heat pump.
The electric car debacle shows the top-down economics of Net Zero don’t add up as the fundamentals of supply and demand are ignored by the ‘cart before the horse’ approach, says Ben Marlow.
A Government plan to relax rules to allow heat pumps to be installed in uninsulated homes they will fail to heat properly has been branded "desperate" and "unethical".
Millions of families have been urged by a green quango not to heat their homes in the evening to help the Government hit its Net Zero target.
By 2035, U.K. households will bid farewell to new gas boilers, but the enthusiasm for heat pumps as a replacement doesn't seem to be warming up.
In a stunning intervention, a major heat pump supplier has attacked Scottish Government plans to use them to replace gas boilers in Scotland, warning they don't work in the cold.
Twice as many people are dying from winter cold than summer heat, yet the Government is impoverishing pensioners with sky-high fuel bills to subsidise renewables, says Ian Price.
Guy de la Bédoyère in the Daily Sceptic says the Government is having a laugh if it expects him to pay £40,000 on making his house more energy efficient, including sticking a wind turbine on his roof.
British Gas has thrown a large spanner into the Government's Net Zero ambitions by stating that it will refuse to install heat pumps in millions of homes where they won't make it warm enough.
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