Never mind the EVCPs, what about the boilers.

I feel that we are being herded onto the most expensive source of energy of all, especially for heating purposes. Electric heating is effectively being forced upon those in our society who can least afford to pay for it. It's the same with electric cars. Studies have shown that those at the bottom of the pile who can just about afford to run a rusty Renault will never be able to afford an electric car.

So unless Greta puts her hand in her very full pocket this will have a very adverse effect upon the electoral chances of any Govt which attempts to vigorously pursue it to the bitter end rather than just fly a kite for focus group purposes. I rather suspect and fervently hope that Boris is just blathering and blustering and is about as serious about this nonsense as he is about redecorating the flat in No 10.


Politics aside, once the electric car charger brigade have chomped off their share of our existing generating capacity, just where is the capacity going to come from to feed all of these snake oil heat pumps?


The incongruity  knows no bounds - a ground source heat pump - according to a rich neighbour of mine who markets such systems exclusively in the USA - states that for every quid spend on electric juice gets you four quid back. To me, there is never ever something for nothing, yet the supposedly smart degree-qualified chattering classes are going mad for these things. When I tried to highlight the fag packet economics behind it and that gas central heating was much cheaper, they said that gas was going to rise in price so they would be better off going the heat pump route, yet when I highlighted the fact that much of the UK's electricity is generated by gas fired power stations you could just about hear the tumbleweed blowing past............

I feel that we are being herded onto the most expensive source of energy of all, especially for heating purposes. Electric heating is effectively being forced upon those in our society who can least afford to pay for it. It's the same with electric cars. Studies have shown that those at the bottom of the pile who can just about afford to run a rusty Renault will never be able to afford an electric car.

So unless Greta puts her hand in her very full pocket this will have a very adverse effect upon the electoral chances of any Govt which attempts to vigorously pursue it to the bitter end rather than just fly a kite for focus group purposes. I rather suspect and fervently hope that Boris is just blathering and blustering and is about as serious about this nonsense as he is about redecorating the flat in No 10.


Politics aside, once the electric car charger brigade have chomped off their share of our existing generating capacity, just where is the capacity going to come from to feed all of these snake oil heat pumps?


The incongruity  knows no bounds - a ground source heat pump - according to a rich neighbour of mine who markets such systems exclusively in the USA - states that for every quid spend on electric juice gets you four quid back. To me, there is never ever something for nothing, yet the supposedly smart degree-qualified chattering classes are going mad for these things. When I tried to highlight the fag packet economics behind it and that gas central heating was much cheaper, they said that gas was going to rise in price so they would be better off going the heat pump route, yet when I highlighted the fact that much of the UK's electricity is generated by gas fired power stations you could just about hear the tumbleweed blowing past............