02-03-2022, 05:29 PM
That's a cosy picture you painted, Nick!
But heating and cooking from a kitchen range - other rooms being unheated- I can't see that somehow. (My bedroom is unheated, incidentally!). And use of coal for domestic heating is largely a thing of the past, firstly coal mining in this country is virtually non-existent now, and secondly clean air, less smoke - it's now a fraction of what it was 40 years ago, and health is the better for it.
The last couple of decades have just been too good. Luxuries have become essentials; personal car ownership for 2 or 3 household members; consumerism that the economy has built up around.
As mentioned, the standing charge increases have come as an unwelcome surprise! While energy costs doubling I can understand, the standing charge is a pain - especially as my two workshops are both metered separately and this is more than the cost of electricity itself.
Oh well...
But heating and cooking from a kitchen range - other rooms being unheated- I can't see that somehow. (My bedroom is unheated, incidentally!). And use of coal for domestic heating is largely a thing of the past, firstly coal mining in this country is virtually non-existent now, and secondly clean air, less smoke - it's now a fraction of what it was 40 years ago, and health is the better for it.
The last couple of decades have just been too good. Luxuries have become essentials; personal car ownership for 2 or 3 household members; consumerism that the economy has built up around.
As mentioned, the standing charge increases have come as an unwelcome surprise! While energy costs doubling I can understand, the standing charge is a pain - especially as my two workshops are both metered separately and this is more than the cost of electricity itself.
Oh well...
