UK Gov. News

Car Scrappage Scheme

The car scrappage scheme comes to an end at the end of March 2010, unless the money runs out first. The scheme has been a fantastic boost for manufacturers exporting to Britain, and helped many countries come out of recession ahead of Britain, thanks to the British tax payer. There is still time to claim the £2000 scrappage scheme. In most cases the extra greenhouse gases used to produce new vehicles outweighed any possible reduction to these harmful gases. With a little thought the government could have used tax payer’s money more advantageous, and not encouraged thousands of people to go into debt.

New Green Strategy for homes.

‘A green transformation of Britain’s homes will take place over the next decade. The plans - set out by the government today - aim to make them more comfortable, warmer and cheaper to run’ is how the government describe there objectives.
According to the government figures, 25% of all emissions come from households, which they intend to cut by 29% by 2015.[ I wonder how they arrived at a precise figure of 29%]
The new strategy will help people make smarter use of energy in homes, making it easier to take action and reduce bills. Installing some technologies, such as solid wall insulation, could see energy bills cut by £380 a year.
The plan has three key milestones:
To insulate 6 million homes by the end of 2011
To have insulated all practical lofts and cavity walls by 2015
To offer up to 7 million eco-upgrades of homes by 2020 and ensure every home has a smart energy meter.
Several years ago we had cavity wall insulation fitted, we could feel the difference immediately, it was cooler in the house the first summer and warmer the first winter. The second summer we had a new roof fitted, out of curiosity while the roof was off I checked the cavity wall insulation. It had settled to one third of the original depth it was supposed to insulate. Great I thought, the heat can’t escape through the first floor walls, but as heat rises automatically it can escape through the walls on the floors higher up.
The governments also talk about ‘solid wall insulation’ they don’t explain exactly what solid wall insulation is. If you have a 200 year old house with solid stone half metre thick walls, are the government proposing to build an insulation wall to the exterior of your home or to the interior? New homes are required to have the cavity walls filled with solid insulation, maybe this is what they mean.
They also plan to have every home fitted with a smart energy meter by 2020.
The cost of all this is to be financed by ‘Pay as you save Loans’ which are tied to the property. So if you are thinking about selling, you may consider having all these energy saving ideas fitted, it will make your house easier to sell, and it will be worth more. The person buying your house is saddled with your debt. The draw back to this is of course that it will make it a lot harder for first time buyers to get on the property market, as if it wasn’t already hard enough.
So we have two great schemes to get people into more debt, through government encouragement. Buy a new car on finance:- increase your debt, help to increase global warming by fuelling increased car production. By a new home and take on somebody else’s debt.
I am sure that the recent recession was caused by people being encouraged to take on more debt than they could afford, and then defaulting on that debt. Although the banks suffered slightly, the government using tax payer’s money bailed them out. The ordinary family who lost their homes as usual got no help, those who lost their jobs, well they got nothing. But you should rejoice in the fact that you and your children will be paying for a long time to support the banks, and the bankers. Providing you have a job and somewhere to live.

Article by Vic Farron. RFT express

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