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New UK Government Plan on Green Heating Is a Disgrace
It is simply crazy. While on one hand we’re facing a dire recession, on the other the cost of basic amenities like gas and electricity is skyrocketing. The poorest in society, often the elderly, are often also the most vulnerable in terms of their health. They are the ones who need to be able to stay warm the most in winter. But it is exactly these people who are increasingly struggling to heat their homes.
The concept of Renewable Energy has become a buzzword for energy companies and governments in the past decade. It’s supposed to be the answer to the world’s problems. Save the planet and save money, it’s a no brainer. With this mantra on their lips, they win votes and build wind farms, supposedly for our benefit.
However the latest initiative by the UK government reveals the truth behind this egalitarian rhetoric. The “Renewable Heating Incentive” is a plan to build more wind turbines and solar panels to replace fossil fuel energy sources. Now you’d think that the responsibility for paying for these developments would land at the feet of global energy giants – but you’d be wrong. It is going to be the bill payer who has to pay for this! The plan aims to charge a levy to energy providers using fossil fuels. However the energy corporations intend to force their customers to pay this levy, by increasing our heating bills.
Electricty prices increased by 26% over the last year, and gas prices by 59%. This meant that millions had to think twice about switching on their portable heaters. In the midst of increasing poverty, the “go green” banner has been used as a solution for families to ease hardship by paying less for energy bills. Yet this idea will fly in the face of that logic, by punishing society’s poor. Ultimately what will happen is only the more well off households will realistically be able to afford making the required ecological energy improvements and switch to green energy. But if you can’t, and resort to using fan heaters or oil filled radiators to warm your house when the temperatures drop, you’ll be hit with higher energy bills. The same will be true even if you factor in the low interest loans scheme that is supposedly aimed at making it more affordable for people to go greener. It’s unlikely that a family that is already struggling to pay their gas and electic, not to mention interest on existing debts, will be willing to take on more debt, whetever the interest rate may be. If the introduction of university student loans have taught us anything, its that offering low interest loans only make these schemes more appealing to the middle classes.
Now tell me, does this seem fair to you? Surely it would be much better to force energy corporations to give up a small percentage of their enormous profits to pay for this scheme.They could then use this significant sum to subsidise green refubishment on lower income houses, so that they can benefit from reduced heating bills. It would be great to hear what people think about this issue.
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