Electric blankets, hot water bottles and bed socks will bring down your energy bills, a Conservative peer says
Saudia Arabia is getting restive at the fear Iranian oil (if sanctions are freed up) will diminish its current stranglehold (production in Libya and Nigeria having been hit by political unrest) on the now deregulated OPEC approach to oil supply – which has defacto enabled it to take a powerful position in managing the overall market. It does this – not I am sure deliberately – but at a price which has significant consequences for people living in fuel poverty in rural England who depend on heating oil.
While the Government announces reforms to reduce the average household energy bill by £50 a year; this article recounts “some simple, practical ideas” to reduce energy costs. Lady Rawlings, an ex-government Whip and former Lords Minister for Culture and Media in the House of Lords, suggests people make use of electric blankets, hot water bottles and bed socks so as to avoid heating the whole house.
Bed socks vs geo-political intervention as the solution to a pernicious problem assailing our rural elderly population – funny how everything is connected when you think about it