please empty your brain below

that's just downright scary.

I have lots of houseplants which should be offsetting my breathing ... plus all the plants in the garden.

I wish all my bills were so clearly laid out!

Brilliant if more than a little scary. If Ken Livingston and loony element of the Greens had their way we'd probably be getting something similar already.

Parky

Good attention to detail with carefully restrained hyperbole. 10/10.

Scary - Am I in the wrong blog?

And then there's the power of entry to inspect...

Don't give them any ideas.

I take it looking at the Ryanair ("Fares for 99p!") website incurs more than £6?

Bit disappointed DG.

You missed the whole section, some 20 odd paragraphs on 3 pages, virtual pages I'll grant you, relating to the taxation due to food miles, and the credits for grow your own.

Apart from the above excellent post..

Where's the tax credit for solar water heating, growing your own veg, recycling absolutely everything possible, having no kids, a super-insulated house, an electricity bill £20 lower now than it was before prices went up 50\\%, having 2 wood burners, and being too ill to drive one's car, eh?

Carrots not sticks are required in this situation, and I want some money back from the 'government' (sic) for all my efforts in this area, just for a change..

I'd be surprised if you can still buy incandescent bulbs in 2011.

I like the idea and hate to poke holes in a good joke but the actual numbers are way out of proportion. From my (rather faulty) memory, home heating is c 70\\% of all domestic carbon use. And air travel is pretty bad as well. Electricity use is relatively marginal in comparison with either.

OK OK OK...

There ought to be lots of possible tax credits for behaving in an environmentally-friendly manner, but the person receiving this bill didn't earn any of them, so they're not included.

I did mention food miles, sort of.

Household heating probably isn't a major contributor to carbon emissions in late spring.

And even if you can't buy incandescent bulbs in 2011, a lot of us will still have them.

I do hope David Miliband isn't reading this.

Maybe the solution is to figure out an easy way to compress the carbon dioxide and shoot it into space.

Or use old jars to store it in the cupboard behind the dried apricots and mixed spice. The jars would need really tight lids.

Then I could take it to a central location in my 4.5litre V8 estate...

Hmmm...interesting...

David, if you are indeed reading this, may I just say one thing? Your father Ralph is turning in his grave right now.

Still, I would - if I could supress my urge to vomit over how right-wing you are, that is.

Sorry I'm late: I've just been changing the jars stuck up the arses of me steers. In NZ we have more methane than carbon. The answer it seems is either go vegan or stop feeding grass to the cattle, move them inside and feed them some grains that you grow in twice the space that they took up outside. Trouble is, the meat tastes like shit if you do that, plus the cost of covering my farm with barns and silos is a bit more than sowing grass seed.

David Brake is probably right. Doesn't most of the electric in the UK come from loss-making French nuclear reactors? One up for the Brits: French government subsidises UK power! (Or am I 20 years out of date?)

2012 before for the incandescent light bulb is banned.
At least in Canada if this minister gets his wish.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2...lunn-
bulbs.html


Already on the way out in 2009/2010 here in oz http://www.environment.gov.au/mi...s/
mr20feb07.pdf


Wow!
We get to live in a world that isn't
about to destroy itself - and it only
costs us money!

I'll take that swap anyday.

Belatedly
So what happens when you die then ? burial? (sic), cremation? Whats the carbon tally there ?

If you are buried in a paper bag and a tree is planted on top of you: carbon credits to leave the grandkids?











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