It's incredible how we can let journalists and politicians say or repeat nonsense over and over again!
The problem we face in “energy poverty” is not the quality of buildings or housing.
In the 1980s there was no problem heating buildings of much poorer quality and in the 1970s even less of a problem.
Do you know why?
Because energy was cheap.
It's that simple.
Successive governments increase energy prices year after year.
To try to hide their increases and the organized gang's plunder on the population of this country, they are demanding crazy work from the owners while talking about energy indecency!
Hahahahahahahaha !
The only indecency here is political indecency. Let's say it.
Indecency IS political.
You can insulate as much as you want, at some point you have to let air into your home.
At some point when it's winter your air is cold.
At some point you will have to heat it.
At some point you will therefore have to pay for energy.
Add 20 more nuclear reactors and there will be no more energy indecency if we lower electricity prices.
That's the problem.
And precisely… As Le Figaro says with AFP source here…
Nearly a third of French people were cold in their homes last winter
“In 2024, a third of French people will have suffered from the cold in their homes. This is twice as much as in 2020. According to the Energy Mediator, it is the amount of bills that pushes households to limit the heating of their homes. One week before the national day to combat energy poverty, November 12, the Mediator recalls that “energy poverty is still strong” but notes that it “is a little less present in the minds” of people living in 2,007 households surveyed in September.
In 2024, energy consumption was a concern for 85% of households, compared to 89% in 2023. But in the acts, 75% of households declare having restricted heating to avoid having too high bills, a proportion which remains significant even if it is decreasing after five consecutive years of strong growth. And for 28% of consumers, energy bills were so high that they struggled to pay them. In the event of unpaid bills, a household risks a power cut from its supplier or a reduction in the electrical power of its home if it is a beneficiary of the energy check or if its supplier has decided to no longer make cuts .
The number of interventions for unpaid bills exceeded one million in 2023, according to the Energy Mediator: 265,000 electricity and gas cuts, down 18% over one year, but reductions in electricity power have increased by 15%, to 736,000. Frédérique Feriaud, general director of the services of the national energy ombudsman, recommends “a complete ban on electricity cuts in the event of unpaid bills”. “Electricity is an essential product and yet, sometimes, we have the feeling that in practice it is not considered as such”, since for water for example, water cuts for unpaid bills are prohibited, she continues. She believes that “a minimum service with reduced power is needed to operate essential electrical appliances, such as the fridge or a telephone to call social services”.
Furthermore, among the 30% of households who report having suffered from the cold in 2024, 32% identify poor insulation in their home as the cause. To reduce their energy consumption, 29% of households are considering insulation work, less than in 2023 (32%). The financial reason remains the main reason (88% of cases) for a change in behavior in energy expenditure, ahead of ecological reasons, put forward by 44% of households having adapted their practices (these two reasons can be combined).”
The problem is not to insulate more.
What has changed is the price of energy that we are forced to buy and that many no longer have the means to pay.
It is not by placing insulation constraints on landlords that the State will resolve the problems.
We must produce electricity and sell it cheaper so that people can heat themselves. Quite simply.
Charles SANNAT
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