Green rip off

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  27 March 2013     09:33222433
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  one for philip to get his teeth into.
  
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/household-bills/9955852/Households-will-have-to-buy-green-appliances-to-benefit-from-Government-energy-bill-boasts.html
• Guest 725

  • Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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  27 March 2013     10:13222440
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  It's not like I didn't warn you all.
  Too late now.
  Those figures are merely a conservative estimate. It's far worse than what's being reported.
• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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  27 March 2013     10:42222451
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  I did think it was all sounding too good to be true...
  
  Rising energy bills will be reduced with climate policies, Ed Davey says
  Energy secretary launches analysis showing that green measures could save householders around £166 a year by 2020
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/27/rising-energy-bills-reduced-climate-policies
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 710

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  27 March 2013     11:17222454
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  Things looking up closer to home...
  
  Selected Dover and Thanet homes together with others in the west of the county are in line for warmers homes and lower energy bills.
  
  http://www.localrags.co.uk/index.php/News/2013/3/27/12million-investment-to-make-dover-and-thanet-homes-warm-and-cut-heating-bills-across-kent/
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 725

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  27 March 2013     12:38222467
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  Tom, I'd hardly describe that as looking up. Those naive enough to take up the offer will be paying shed loads more in their energy bills for years and years. Those measures, designed to combat dangerous climate change and save the polar bears and halt the rise in sea levels and and and stop this cold weather We are having because of global warming, don't come free.
  The cost of "greening" those houses will be added to the energy bills. Bear in mind that the contractors will charge double the going rate.
  Another green con.
  Next!
• Andy B

  • Location: dover
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  27 March 2013     18:10222511
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  Green this n that,Carbon footprints,blah,blah,blah.Excuses to get more and more money out of us all.Perhaps it would be better if we all throw away our cars,go back to horses n carts,eat lentils,wear sandles and s**t in the bushes.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  27 March 2013     18:20222514
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  that last bit struck a chord andy, our local dogs have been doing that for years and some of them can even put the results in plastic bags afterwards.
  
  now that is what i call clever.
• Andy B

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  27 March 2013     18:40222520
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  A pity that some cant take the plastic bags away with them instead of hanging them on the fences.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  27 March 2013     19:22222542
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  racked my brains but i don't of any dogs that clever.
• Guest 653

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  28 March 2013     06:07222566
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  You're right Howard, the dogs can't do that, only untrained unintelligent owners do that.
  
  
  
  Roger