Sorry to disillusion you, but I’ve seen many petitions which have had 200,000 signatures. All that happens is that the government, or their civil service representatives, provide some ‘persuasive’ reason why they cannot ‘on this occasion’ provide whatever is being requested.
Of course, I’m all in favour of reducing energy bills, be it for older people or all of us, but I’m afraid that I’d never trust the authorities to listen to ‘the little people’ like us.
I still hope for the best outcome, but don’t be too disappointed.
Only time will tell, JBR. But at least those who have signed, have tried to help the people who are doing their best to help us. They cannot do it without our support.
This is reminiscent of what we used to hear about the USSR. The dictators living in style whilst their people lived in abject poverty, and we here used to feel so sorry for them believing that we had the good fortune to live in an egalitarian society.
I suppose there will always be the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’.
I’d rejoice at that price, Scot.
Starting 1st March my new contract is slightly more than double that!
I don’t know how some people are going to manage now.
If ours goes up much more I’m going to turn off our central heating and use our log burner on an evening instead, though we’d still use the boiler for hot water. It might be cheaper that way.
My nearest daughter (also my youngest) has a boiler built into her log burner and she finds that is suffices for medium amounts of very warm water throughout the day and just enough for I bath each evening. . OR the diverter valve will direct the water flow to radiators. It can serve both in the mid position, but that requires far more wood than in single mode.
She does indeed save money. Some of her wood she buys as a manufactured long burning product (I don’t know names) and other wood comes from her ex as part of project-anti-ear-bashing from their two adult children He runs a flooring contractors, so a huge amount of offcuts are dropped of to my daughter throughout the year.
That’s encouraging. I use kiln dried logs, which are readily available and only a few pounds for a bag. I should try to work out how much heat and for how long I can get for a given price and compare that to the price I pay for gas for a similar length of time.
He runs a flooring contractors, so a huge amount of offcuts are dropped of to my daughter throughout the year.