19/03/2025
April price increases on some gas boilers are up to 12.5%! Some boilers have gone up in price by around 31% since Covid. Some of this is manufacturer profiteering, but in large part, this is the direct result of the green lobby pushing to penalise the sale and use of gas boilers, LONG before our energy infrastructure, or even the housing stock itself, is ready for it. Long before the levies on electricity have actually changed to support lower electricity bills.
The left, yet again, proving why the world is migrating to the political right! We are fans of heat pumps and supporters of electrification and a reduced (not exported) Carbon footprint. We are politically homeless, but what we see is the hysterical climate emergency left, pushing you to poverty and "drill-baby-drill," on the other extreme. The speech by Kemi Badenoch demonstrated a much more reasoned and sensible approach.
There is so much wrong with the heating industry. So much grant money wasted and directed in the wrong areas. We need to be around the tables of these discussions! Maybe we shouldn't write such a politicised post on our business page, but this whole thing just angers us. We see, at the coal-face, people really struggling when their boiler breaks to beyond economical repair and they have no choice but to replace it. This is going to make A LOT more people struggle more than is necessary, but hey, at least we're being greener!
(Let's ignore; the manufacturing processes; the human rights violations; the wars fought over precious minerals; the fact that we need the oil and gas industry to grease the fan bearings; coat the electric cables in PVC insulation and refrigerant gas, for the heat pumps. Let's ignore the transport CO2 output for all these components shipped halfway around the world. And most of all, let's ignore the CRIPPLING financial cost to those who can LEAST AFFORD IT)!