The goverment could put solar panels on every home in the uk?

Fantastic, now you'll have enough free electricity on a clear day to boil your kettle. Next question.

The planning departments and heritage folks might have a few justifiable concerns. I'd hate to see a nice thatched cottage with a solar panel on it. Otherwise, I think that government are dragging their heals on alternative energy.

The amount paid out in aid is minor in the grand scale. It wouldn't cover the cost of what you want, but like most things the cost of energy is overblown and inflated. It has already been pointed out that government is all too happy to collect green taxes, but shows no willingness to put those taxes back into developing alternatives.

They want your pennies and that is all (and I don't just mean government).

oh yes what a wonderful idea......for some reason one is reminded of pebbledashing oh yes one remembers now because it looks blooming awful. Solar panels are unsightly hideous things that seem to be latching onto homes at a rate of knots in the vain excuse that they save money and even generate money for the homeowner.

One is reminded of a story yonks ago, a mate of mine many years ago, was working with a team to put in telecommunications in Africa, anyway by day they'd put up the poles, by night they'd be miracously sawn down. turnt out the locals were using the poles to build a bridge.

I can just see the council house estates and a huge rise in deals at the scrap metal merchant coupled with claims that wind blew off the panels.

The problem isn't privatization its the VAT and TAX on the fuel bills, and whilst one sympathizes because its blooming expense we're all in the same boat. Admittedly one is home for maybe three months max, I don't know what to suggest, one's on a metre for everything these days, low energy lightbulbs etc etc. Its getting to a point where I'll have to ask myself what's more important, a cup of tea or having the heating on. Nope will happen is that money will have to be saved from other areas like food bills etc. hopefully we'll be out of recession soon.

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I take it you're poor because you were never any good at sums. The aid budget is £7.8 billion. Providing enough solar panels for all the domestic electricity in the UK would cost over £2 trillion. That's:

£7,800,000,000

and

£2,000,000,000,000

But don't let arithmetic stand in the way of you thinking you need the money more than the hungry.

The government could also put solar panels on every home and free water if they hadn't have cut corporation tax....

But this government ain't interested in you - they only care about their business mates.

The government's bankrupt, the public will suffer with tax increases.

Stop relying on the government, it doesn't serve your interests.

if there is a pound in your pocket they will want it!

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