Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill

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  1. Just maybe the man is running away as he’s realised the Eco tax is one big con. After all there is 2.39 million homes in fuel poverty and 1.3 million (over half!!!) of those were not insulated or had a bolier replaced, also the homes taregetted were already deemed “efficent” yet still got funding and the worse home, older housing stock, the ones wasting energy weren’t targetted as they “just” fell outside the fuel poverty line/percentage, big con and big waste of money

    1. Elsewhere, on Sunday morning, a blogger describes the UK environmental policy as “a cesspit”.

      A commenter protested that this was a slur on cesspits everywhere

  2. England has reduced its landfill from 60m tonnes per annum to 20m tonnes thanks to the escalating landfill tax. Clever linking of policies takes it even further: the RHI now incentivises burning wood for energy and an estimated 1 million tonnes of clean waste wood could further reduce landfill and save carbon. In Bristol the arboricultural arisings from street tree management that used to go to landfill now power a biomass boiler which heats the City’ (vastly inefficient, single skinned) polytunnels producing ‘municipal plants’.

    Can we really not do the same for heat ? Heat is 49% of our energy useage in England and as Douglas points out our housing stock is vastly inefficient – let alone industrial buildings like those polytunnels which virtually transfer heat straight to the atmosphere. Achieving the landfill reduction would reduce our energy use by a cool 32%.

  3. I find it strange that there are so many dislikes showing for the cartoon. I appreciate that there are valid objections to the way the so-called “green taxes” are organised, but even so the cartoonist’s main point is the threat posed by fossil fuels.

      1. I reckon half them thumbs down’s are from those who have objected to Ralph’s previous cartoons, even though my first comment is a negative one it didn’t translate to a thumbs down, are you going to remove this stupid system anytime soon Mark?

        1. Maybe they had more to do with this:
          http://www.politicshome.com/uk/story/38231/energy_market_trust_wilts.html
          or this:
          http://order-order.com/2013/11/04/re-renting-davey-claims-expenses-for-libdem-owned-officemoney-paid-to-company-of-which-wife-is-director/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+guidofawkes+%28Guy+Fawkes%27+blog+of+parliamentary+plots%2C+rumours+and+conspiracy%29
          or this:
          http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/11/3/davey-knew-deben-was-conflicted.html
          or this:
          http://order-order.com/2013/10/31/flints-only-gaffe-today/

          Only about a fifth of what she was required to repay in over-claimed expenses. So many snouts, such a big trough …

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