Not Good - Times Article

[Pete Mctree]

If they could control & earn tax/dividends from control of wood fuel they would say something different. It must really upset the government that people can get fuel for free in some cases. The spin doctors will throw more stuff like this at the media no doubt

[Paul Jenks]

It would be interesting to find out who paid for the reaserch

 

London boroughs

 

It says so at the bottom of the paper.

[teepeeat]

nothing new there - UK cities were black with smog for centuries. They have more recently quantified it a bit and brought it in line with scientific advances

Wood burning or burning anything releases particulates - whether in a power station or in a domestic stove. There are ways of minimising these particulates in all scenarios as well - to a greater or lesser degree.

Politics will kick this one around a lot more for many years to come, in the meantime I will just burn the minimum I need to, as efficiently as possible.

[Goaty]

Hmmh if the research in to reducing emissions had actually been directed more fully at fuel economy and burning less to do more mileage or given result we could of got better results all round. Instead we burn the same or more to achieve the same as years ago .

 

Green and greed only the last letter is different!

[teepeeat]

yup, and it is also quite feasble these days to design the heating requirement out of houses, but you dont seem to get too much incentive to do this. The government just tinker about on the edge so as not to upset the big energy companies, but show that they are doing something - not

[TGB]

To keep my boat warm this winter it is either going to be diesel fumes or wood-burning fumes. Which is the worse !?

 

Haven't you given a thought to just fitting a fast breeder reactor...

[Countryboy]

The government can't collect tax on wood YET how long will it be before they do. Is there nothing we can do without someone interfering. Fed up with the lot of them

[Capetown]

Codes for Sustainable Homes, http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/code_for_sust_homes.pdf code 6 is supposed to be carbon neutral. I agree with all of the foregoing. Govt would dearly like to tax wood, they just can't find a way yet! It's a bit like electric cars. Typical cost per mile for an ICE (fuel only) 12p. Charging cost for an EV between 2p and 3p. Broadly it takes as much electrical energy as fossil fuel per mile, the difference in the cost is Tax!

[GreenGui]

The government can't collect tax on wood YET how long will it be before they do. Is there nothing we can do without someone interfering. Fed up with the lot of them

 

It's started over here. I recently bought 45m3 of 2m length cord wood delivered and Hollande has stuck a 10% tax on it!! its the 'peasants' fuel for dogs sake. No wonder he's the least popular president since the last least popular president:001_rolleyes:

[aquatoo]

And whatever happened to Hydrogen cells as a fuel source?

 

As for taxing wood, Hollande has been trying to find ways to excessively tax people with second homes in France, one of which has just been ruled illegal by the EU. Hooray for the EU and hurry up the next French Elections. At least Sarkozy was amusing!

 

Basically the only problem the world has is that there are too many people on it.