It's a gas

This idea of removing natural gas from our lifestyle seems a bit premature to me.  It's natural, we have the same infrastructure to use it and have huge deposits lasting another 40+ years and that's without looking for more.  The price is driving up just so people will stop using it.  Imagine the hue and cry if we were still making gas from coal.  Nevertheless our Winter heating is inefficient. The outlets are in the roof for one thing. In Essendon our heating came from floor outlets. The controller here allows for a one third partitioning of the house and generally the gas was heating two thirds for 10 hours a day.  Debbie spied these el cheapo portable heaters. So when she is in her small room all day, that is all that needs heating. Currently she is spending 12 to 14 hour days in a huge rewriting of Pure Bookkeeping procedures.  So we have received our Red energy bill and for the last 60 days this year, we have used ⅕ or 20% or hardly anything of what we used in the same period last year. The cooking is the same and the hot water is the same.  We brought a large pot of water to the boil in Williamstown last month on the electric cooker there and it took 30 minutes. I should have started a wood fire outside.

Compare todays small column on the right with last years equivalent on the left.