Reading in The Times that \u201cministers \u2026 have agreed to work on a government-backed scheme to convert domestic oil-fired boilers to run on green fuels\u201d, did not fill me with much confidence, especially as new oil boilers were due to be cancelled with indecent haste (2026).<\/p>\n
I thought: What fuels? How 'green'? \u00a0And how can these \u2013 whatever they are \u2013 be available at scale by 2026? \u00a0This did not sound like a plan, and I thought that, yet again, the government is confusing ideas, targets and plans. \u00a0However, it seems that the government is encouraging industry to bring 'greener' (that is not from fossil fuels) products to market. \u00a0That does sound like a good thing even if it's not yet a fully worked out plan. Maybe we'll all be told to eat a lot more chips \u2013 but only healthy green chips of course.<\/p>\n
At this point in the usually long drawn out post-drafting process I wrote: \"Maybe it's time to replace that old oil boiler with a new one while you still can \u2013 and do it now before prices inevitably rise.\" \u00a0At the same point I wrote to my MP in protest at how an oil boiler replacement ban would adversely affect all those benighted folk without the benefits of the gas grid. \u00a0They are mostly in rural areas of course.<\/p>\n
But I now hear that the ban on oil boiler replacements is set to be postponed until 2035 or somewhen. \u00a0Amazing how one email to an MP can have such an immediate and positive effect. \u00a0Maybe I should do it more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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