Gas

[poliphilo]

Our gas supplier is raising the price of its product by some ridiculous percentage.  Time to get out the woolies.

I refuse to feed their shareholders' hunger.

Because central heating is very nice and all, but I lived the first ten years of my life without it.  Later, as a young married, I spent three years in a draughty, decaying, unheated, Victorian vicarage in Cambridge- and If you can survive a fenland winter without buffering you can survive anything.

Ailz says we can go sit in the public library if it gets really cold. 

Comments

[richenda.livejournal.com]

There are still many people in the UK who haven't got any kind of central heating or a mains gas supply.
A friend of mine in a no-mains-gas area got an over-60s grant to instal Twin Economy heating (cheap electricity twice a day and storage heaters) and got into the routine of late lunch/early dinner and cooking in cheap time for a tiny freezer.
Then she moved to so-called sheltered accommodation which has gas central heating - so she doesn't use the central heating, because she can't possibly afford it, even with the £200 annual fuel allowance.
What's really mad is that the gas radiators aren't adjustable - she can't even turn one or another off, let alone down - so the only way of turning down the heating results in tepid washing up water. She leaves things in soak until she can use a kettle in cheap time.ses electric heaters (not radiant, of course!)on a timer, uses the electric shower in cheap time, and goes to bed early, because she can get up early, when the heater is on in cheap time.
Fortunately she joined a scheme whereby her electricity provider has undertaken not to raise the charges for another year. Also fortunately, she's fit enough to spend a lot of time on heated buses and in libraries.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I wonder if a time is coming when we'll all- except the very rich- regard central heating as an expensive luxury.

My mother's gloomy friend lent me a very gloomy book about how Western civilization is going to collapse once the oil runs out. I wasn't entirely convinced by the argument, but I do think there are hard times coming and we need to prepare for them.