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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Or we could find ways to use fuel more efficiently and stop wasting it.
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We all have our part to play, however domestic CO2 production is less than 15% of the UK total and on current estimates, British homes are only going to manage to reduce their CO2 output by about 10%, or 1.5% of the total national emissions, by 2020. Domestic energy efficiency measures really are just spitting on an inferno.
The fact is, economic growth consumes energy. If the economy grows, then our energy consumption grows. The loudest voices demanding radical energy efficiency measures are luddite greens who would actually quite like our economy to collapse backwards into what they delusionally believe to be some sort of quasi-agrarian utopia.
If we need to reduce our CO2 emissions (and IMO it is an if), then the way to do that is by employing power generation methods that produce less CO2, not by futile attempts at using less energy.