Absolutely spot-on Kate. It does not seem to matter how many learned people try and explain common sense to the Government on energy conservation and fuel poverty, their clueless Ministers keep turning up with more and more creative accounting initiatives like the FiT and Green Deal to hoodwink us into thinking they are doing something about climate change
The main reason that bullets are not being bitten is that, behind the scenes, furious lobbying by vested interests in the energy, construction and renewables industries ensure that nothing will be done that would harm their obscene profits. Nothing so crude as bribery and corruption is going on here (?) but just watch all these Ministers waltz into highly paid directorships with the successful lobbying companies when their parliamentary careers are over. We have not got a hope of cracking this problem as it has been going on for decades, if not centuries. This is why we have massive subsidies for renewables and 20% VAT on building fabric alterations to improve energy consumption. We really do live in a mad, mad world
