
Barely a day goes by without this malicious clap trap winding me up. Yesterday I discovered a new aspect to it* which has the potential to really hit me where it hurts (in the wallet ? ). Net Zero – it really is a cunt:
Ongoing – 25% of your electricity bill is “environmental costs”.
Money Week Link.
Ongoing – ULEZ charges of £25/ day (on top of a £15/day congestion charge) if you have to venture inside the M25 and you are too poor to afford an electric car.
TFL Link.
2025 – Rental properties to have a minimum EPC rating of C to be allowed to be let to a tenant. That’s around 18 million pre-1980 houses that could be very difficult/uneconomically expensive to update affecting 70% of the house rental market. You might not be a landlord or a tenant but I’ll bet it’s not long before this pernicious requirement gets rolled out to non-rental house sales. The EPC on my old house states that to achieve a C rating I would have to fit a £20k windmill. I kid you not – utter bollox!
https://www.nationalpropertybuyers.co.uk/new-epc-rating-rules-to-affect-millions/
https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/English_housing_stock_age
2026 – sale of new oil boilers banned* The ivory tower on high has decreed that you will have to spend c£20k installing a “heat pump” (that won’t work properly and will cost a small fortune to run) instead of 1/10 of that cost to replace your boiler if it packs up. That’s 1.5 million people left out on a limb.
https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/boilers/oil-boiler-ban
2030 – sale of new petrol and diesel cars banned. That’s 40 million drivers disadvantaged (whilst .9 million drive around smirking in their electric cars).
Forecourt Trader Link.
It is said that Net Zero will create wealth and reduce energy bills. The truth is it’s costing us £trillions while China, Russia and the developing world laugh their collective bollox off at our stupidity while they continue pumping out more emissions than 99 UKs could ever manage. Net Zero is the ultimate cunt!
Nominated by : Mikdys


