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Boost for hard-pressed Brits as Britain’s gas boiler and petrol and diesel car bans WON’T be brought forward
CALLS for a ban on polluting gas boilers to be brought forward have been rejected.
The demand was contained in Tory MP Chris Skidmore’s Net Zero review to make sure legally binding green targets were met.
Calls for polluting gas boilers to be banned have been rejected[/caption]
Energy Secretary Grant Shapps is refusing to budge on plans to ditch gas boilers by 2035[/caption]
But Energy Secretary Grant Shapps is refusing to budge on plans to ditch gas boilers by 2035. In his review, Mr Skidmore wanted the boiler ban brought forward to 2033.
But Mr Shapps said he would not shift on that — as well as resisting pressure from Tory MPs to delay a ban on new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 to the EU target date of 2035.
He said: “We are not in Europe, we don’t have to do what Europe does — we’ve always been more forward leaning on this stuff than the EU.”
The Government is already set to make electricity cheaper than gas in an attempt to push people towards eco-friendly devices.
Up to 300,000 families will get help to insulate homes with the Great British Insulation Scheme.
Meanwhile, £5,000 bungs to get a new heat pump will continue until 2028, and the world’s second largest floating wind farm, East Anglia Three, will power 1.3million homes from the coast of Norfolk when it is completed.
But the Government will delay its response to Joe Biden‘s Inflation Reduction Act — where firms will get billions to subsidise green plans — until autumn.
Mike Childs of Friends of the Earth, said: “These plans look half-baked and half-hearted.”
Petrol stations refusing to make diesel cheaper despite wholesale prices falling
WHITE van men are being fleeced by greedy forecourts refusing to make diesel cheaper despite plummeting wholesale prices, stats show.
A 10p fall in barrel costs in the last four weeks has translated into just a 3p dip at the pumps.
Campaigners warn the nation’s 12million diesel drivers are being stung for their cash during a time of intense financial crisis[/caption]
Figures from the RAC’s Fuel Watch show retailers are pocketing 19p for every litre of diesel they say – more than double what they took last year.
Campaigners warn the nation’s 12million diesel drivers – including virtually every van tradesman – are being ripped off during a cost of living crisis.
RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said the fuel duty cut extended this week by Jeremy Hunt was being gobbled up by forecourts.
He said: “The pricing tactics of major retailers mean that diesel drivers in particular – including those who work for millions of small businesses – are still getting a really miserable deal at the pumps, and effectively aren’t seeing any benefit from the 5p duty cut whatsoever.”
Small firms were dealt another blow last night as the OBR warned 40,000 will deliberately slash their revenues by £350million to dodge a stealth VAT rise.
The tax on turnover was frozen for an eighth consecutive year at the Budget, dragging thousands of companies into paying the rate.
The watchdog warned: “Given the administrative burden and pricing consequences of being subject to the VAT regime, the registration threshold also creates an incentive for firms to cap their annual turnover just below it.”