Big Heating Bill This Month?

Posted by Rolf Joho on February 16th, 2010 filed in What Causes Global Warming

the old young and ill suffered most this month as a terrible cold front settled in the UK for a good two weeks, it has also had serious implications on bills! We seemed to have gotten through this as a country although I do think we could have handled it a lot better than we did. However it would seem that as a country we have spent just over £1.2 billion over a very short period of time, two weeks in fact, much more than a normal winter.

At Work

I have to say that the timing wasn’t brilliant as many offices had not had people in them for around about 10 days which means they were going to take a while to get that heat back into them again. The offices were left cold so the heating was turned up to the max on arrival. So many shops did also have their heating turned up because of the weather, this was partly done to keep customers happy. On top of this many stores were getting in things like convector heater and a fan heater to keep the staff warm.

At Home

So many people were already freezing and once the cold front came in they has just reached the end of it and had enough so they decided to just turn up the heating. Many children and parents were still at home because of the snow and people are just not prepared to be cold when they are in their homes all day long.

Problems

There do not seem to be massive problems for the government as they are getting the money from the taxpayers however it is a bit tricky to keep buying in more gas and many people are going to find that their heating bills this month are going to be very high indeed. Of course you could just get portable heaters for occasions such as this.

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