Darling Invites the UK Public to Get Rid of their
Old Boilers
In one of the more popular moves in his pre-budget report maneuvers, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alasdair Darling has handed a potential £400 bonus to up to UK 125,000 households. They will receive the bonus in order get to upgrade their old and dilapidated 'band G' gas heating boilers.
The £85 million plan to replace the 'band G' gas boilers, has apparently followed in the footsteps of this year's car scrappage scheme that proved to be highly successful. The long term view of Darling's proposals is to replace older models with energy-efficient boilers that will cut energy use and the bills that go with it as well as harmful carbon curb emissions.
Estimates are that there are more than four million band G gas boilers currently in use in the UK. Under the difficult financial climate of the past two years, the UK public has shown what could be understandable resistance to replacing their old gas boilers, with newer more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly models costing around £2,000 to replace. Despite the fact that Families could save up to £250 a year in energy bills by upgrading to more energy-efficient ones, most homeowners only replace them when their old ones fail.
Alistair Darling's scrappage scheme appears to be part of a strategy for using the tax system to encourage the UK public to enjoy the benefits of the tax system while combating global warming.
He also continued the energy saving theme by announcing that householders with wind turbines or solar panels on their homes who feed excess power back into the grid would receive a tax-free payment of £900 a year under a "feed-in tariff" scheme. The scheme is due to start in April 2010.
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