Fuel Poverty

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Wikipedia defines fuel poverty as:

"In the UK, fuel poverty is said to occur when in order to heat its home to an adequate standard of warmth a household needs to spend more than 10% of its income to maintain an adequate heating regime."

Just wondering; if the same definition was applied to petrol and diesel, how many people could claim they were in fuel poverty?

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SirBlade said:

That is not a definition. A definition defines something, it is specific.
A definition doesn't use words like "adequate" and how big is the "average" house?
The Wiki isn't a place you can cite, for good reason.

Sorry, sir.

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johnpeat said:

The massive, ginormous difference being that heating your home isn't really a choice (you cannot control the weather outside or move everyone south!!)

You can turn the heating off and put on a nice jumper or a particularly attractive cardigan.

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Tyrewrecker said:

The average take home per household is 40k

How many cars in the average household?

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Blimey.

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johnpeat said:

All this talk of average income is bks - it means nothing at all...

Fuel Poverty is attempting to identify people who need genuine help and it seems a reasonable approach to do that.

Attempting to apply it to your ability to use an expensive 2 tonne luxury product to carry your lazy arse to the betting shop is nothing like the same thing...

You're quite an angry man.

It's also 830kg and I don't bet.

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martin84 said:

Yet somebody else can say every car is a 2 tonne luxury only used for visiting a betting shop and not get called on it?

He didn't say that, to be fair.

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martin84 said:

Dont play word games with me.

Frightened of a little sport?

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johnpeat said:

It's bad enough we're in this state but the idea that fuel poverty should apply to car usage - it's a step too far I think. It's bad enough that we tolerate what amounts to selfish/lazy behaviour on an epic scale - it's another for people to demand that their selfish/lazy behaviour be subsidised or deemed an 'entitlement'.

No, I basically asked who spends more than 10% of their net income on fuel for their car. I wasn't suggesting it should be subsidised or whether or not it's a necessity or a luxury. If you want a soapbox, I'm happy to send you one in the post but, in the meantime, you might want to rethink posting you quasisociopoliticoramblathon elsewhere because frankly you're starting to sound like a bit of a lunatic.