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This! When you can run your house and charge your car for free with your own panels and batteries, oil/gas has very limited value to me. We rarely burn peat an
by ljf 3y ago
This! When you can run your house and charge your car for free with your own panels and batteries, oil/gas has very limited value to me.
We rarely burn peat any more too as another example of a 'valuable resource' that is left in situ rather than collected now.
- timeon 3y agoIt is not like burning it but peat is still harvested and sold for gardening purposes.
- ljf 3y agoVery true - but the value of peat as a heating fuel is now vastly diminished as other more efficient fuels are available for a lower price. I remember peat still being burnt in Shetland when I was young, and compared to coal or even wood it gave off very little heat. There is still plenty of peat to be taken 'for free' as a fuel using traditional methods, but very little is burnt now, as it is easier and cheaper to heat your home, with wood, coal or more likely gas or electricity.
- c7DJTLrn 3y agoStill need oil for plastics and industrial chemical production, both of which are going to be needed for the foreseeable future.
- ljf 3y agoYes you would, until there is a cheaper alternative - which in time I'd hazard a guess that there will be.