According to the Conservatives, if landlords can get new answers to clients to prepare for an impending ban on gas boilers in rental properties, they can “don't worry.”
Its leader Kemi Badenok said yesterday that if she were to take power, she would scrap the 2050 “net zero” plan that was heavily promoted by the ministers from both the former ministers of the government's former party and today's workers.
The government has set legally binding targets to reduce UK net emissions by 100% by 2050 compared to the 1990 level known as “net zero targets,” but at this point it is to implement a rolling replacement of gas-fired boilers with low or zero carbon replacements.
Badenok said he wants to wipe out this commitment now, saying homeowners and landlords are facing greater costs, including “they are being forced to replace fully functional cars, boilers and rice cookers with the same version of the more expensive and less reliable version.”
“By 2040, the Climate Change Commission says more than half of UK homes will need to strip the boiler and replace it with heat pumps.
“There is no way to do this quickly enough on that timescale.
“There is no way to do this quickly enough on this timescale, and you will need to install expensive heat pumps in 17 million homes in just 15 years.
“Do you have one house now? It's under 300,000. It turns out that many people don't like it because the heat pump runs on a lot of expensive electricity.”
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