Energy saving obstructed?

maxmycardagain

On the news, HMG have blocked an energy saving promotion

What was it? 

inkydolphin

maxmycardagain said:

On the news, HMG have blocked an energy saving promotion

What was it? 

I think it was a campaign to help people save up to £300 a year by doing things like lowering the temperature of boilers, turning off radiators in empty rooms and turning off the heating when going out.

FreeBear

https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4057660/reports-shelves-energy-saving-advice-campaign

A £15m advertising campaign advising people how to reduce energy consumption - The information is already in the public domain, and just common sense. Unfortunately, vast swathes of the public need to be reminded, and a small number need reeducating.

MattMattMattUK

No actual saving was obstructed, just wasting money telling people things that they should already know and is available from other sources already. 

Farway

It was telling people to shut the doors and turn lights off

molerat

Farway said:

It was telling people to shut the doors and turn lights off

Turning lights off saves on electric use ?  You learn something new every day

Farway

molerat said:

Farway said:

It was telling people to shut the doors and turn lights off

Turning lights off saves on electric use ?  You learn something new every day

Yes, it stops the electrons leaking out

Xbigman

This sort of campaign was always likely to get a poor reception on this forum but in reality there are a lot of people who have never even thought about saving energy for whom this kind of information might have been useful. The number of people I've spoken to who can't even understand an electric bill is frightening.


Darren 

daveyjp

MattMattMattUK said:

No actual saving was obstructed, just wasting money telling people things that they should already know and is available from other sources already. 

"telling people things that they should already know".

As we are all born knowing nothing how did you learn 'what you already know'? Did someone may be tell you?

MattMattMattUK

daveyjp said:

MattMattMattUK said:

No actual saving was obstructed, just wasting money telling people things that they should already know and is available from other sources already. 

"telling people things that they should already know".

As we are all born knowing nothing how did you learn 'what you already know'? Did someone may be tell you?

The information has been in the news for years, over the last six months it has been on all broadcast news, published, online, social media etc. incessantly, media is saturated with it. The information that was going to be published in the shelved campaign is information that people have available if they want it, those that have not absorbed information are doing so by choice, paying for a campaign would just result in that campaign being another source of information that they choose to ignore. 

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Xbigman said:

This sort of campaign was always likely to get a poor reception on this forum but in reality there are a lot of people who have never even thought about saving energy for whom this kind of information might have been useful. The number of people I've spoken to who can't even understand an electric bill is frightening.


Darren 

These people are not suddenly going become interested because the government runs an advert.  And no advert is going to be able to explain to them things that they are not interested in.

If they were interested, they would already know.

Actually surprisingly sensible for HMG to decide not to spend money on something that would have been useless PR guff.