How About This Heating Bill?
It would seem that the cold front had caused many problems for the people in the UK this month and this is especially true for the old, young and ill! However we battled through it as a country and although I think we could have handled it a bit better bit we did it. We have spend a stupid amount of money on this and as a country have spent over £1.2 billion over a very short period of time, two weeks in fact, much more than a normal winter.
In The Office
I have to say that the timing wasn’t brilliant as many offices had not had people in them for around about 10 days which means they were going to take a while to get that heat back into them again. The offices were left cold so the heating was turned up to the max on arrival. So many shops did also have their heating turned up because of the weather, this was partly done to keep customers happy. On top of this many stores were getting in things like convector heater and a fan heater to keep the staff warm.
At Home
So many people were already freezing and once the cold front came in they has just reached the end of it and had enough so they decided to just turn up the heating. There were actually still many families at home because of the snow which was partly why the heating was turned up so much in the homes in these two weeks.
Problems
There do not seem to be massive problems for the government as they are getting the money from the taxpayers however it is a bit tricky to keep buying in more gas and many people are going to find that their heating bills this month are going to be very high indeed. Of course you could just get portable heaters for occasions such as this.
