England’s Biggest Heating Bill.
I think that I may have inadvertently stumbled upon a conspiracy to do with global warming…
According to this news story we are actually preventing a mini ice age by releasing loads of Co2 emissions into the atmosphere! If this is true then it is no wonder why our government don’t want to do a lot to change anything.
You don’t know what I mean? Well, let me get to the point; at the moment, if you are claiming benefits or you are a pensioner, you get a ‘cold weather payment’ if it is below freezing for seven days running. If we have a mini ice age then it could end up costing the government quite a bit of dosh…
It seems to be really difficult to find out just how many people in Britain are claiming benefits. I have done some maths but have had to leave out people who are claiming such things as Income Support, Disability Living Allowance and Incapacity Benefit. If I knew how many people that involved then it would make a massive difference to the total figure!
In the UK there are –
· around 11.58 million pensioners.
· around 2.49 million people who are unemployed.
· A cold weather payment is £25 a week.
If we were living in an ice age then I would guess that it would probably be below freezing every day… If so, we are talking about anyone who is eligible for a cold weather payment to receive £1,300 per year.
That is a lot of firewood. Mind you, we would need it!
So, how much would it cost the government if they had to pay out this much to everyone on the dole or over pension age? Well, we are talking about a bill of around £18,291,000,000 per year (if my maths are correct…).
I am starting to understand why they are not doing more about climate change now! That would be a lot of giro’s to send out each week. OMG! I hadn’t even thought about their postage costs!
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