Let's be honest you don't have a clue how often he's got the electric heater on for.
Maybe try showing a bit of concern to an elderly man admitted to hospital rather than parotting the usual Tory lines.
The fact that things like this are happening in a wealthy country are a F***ing disgrace and we should be showing concern to people rather than lecturing them.
The opening post sums up the state of this country and its absolutely disgusting. Companies making billions while others are struggling to eat and keep warm. There was an old lady on the telly the other day who lived in this area, she said she's down to one meal a day and can barely afford to put the heating on.
Who is going to pay for the electric blanket for her? She could turn her gas and electricity off and she'll still get bills from them each month for the standing charge.
Yes, there's probably ways of being more fuel efficient but to understand that you probably need access to the Internet, can a 90 year old afford broadband or know how to work a smart phone?
I've read articles recently about cutting energy bills and I've read things like turning my kettle off at the wall and keeping it off will save about 6 quid a year, thats gonna make a difference to my 3 grand a year bills.
Doesn't matter how long he has his electric heater on for, if he is already using an electric heater in a fairly mild autumn and is ending up in hospital, what do you think he is going to be like come January or Feb or when it snows? He'll be needing to use it more and from the sound did it the poor bloke won't be able to afford it which creates other risks.
How the f**k is telling someone to share a moneysaving tip parrotting a Tory line? Are you ok? Did you have a bad nights sleep?
Using an electric blanket for 7 hours a day =£1.50 a week
Using an electric heater for 2 hours a day (very unlikely) = £2 a day
1.5*52=£130 a year
£2 a day*365 =£730 a year
Rising to £1460 a year for 4 hours a day
Obviously he wouldn't be using it in spring and summer but but shows the depth of savings even when split by 2 to cover the colder months only. As for who will buy them the electric blanket, who bought them the electric heater? Curry's sells them for £18 for a double. They'd make those savings inside a week or two via using an electric heater, and get many more hours of heat out of it. Absolutely no one should be having to sit there with an electric blanket keeping them warm but given the situation he is in where he can't afford to hear the house I would rather him be able to keep warm for longer than not?
For everyone else, turning off kettles at the all will do bog all, however many people can make actionable savings by checking their energy use. Eg if run a second freezer in the garage that can easily be £100 a year in the garage for the sake of convenience. Likewise tumble driers in garages have to work harder when it's colder, costing more. Making sure that immersion heaters are turned off when not in use, turning down boiler hot water temp and radiator temp to make boiler more efficient, making sure combi boilers don't have preheat water turned on as it burns through a load of gas, power scheduling things, we made some minor changes to our home automation to turn our data server off overnight and subwoofer off at the wall when not in use via an automated smart plug and that's saved us a few hundred a year for a minor change. Lot of people leave computers on all the time and they can be efficient in low power states but some will still have significant energy use and if not in use, put them in sleep mode or turn them off completely. All fairly no brainer things and can save several hundred quid by doing so. Turning off per-heat on a combi boiler can save 5-10% of gas bills which is insane and many people have that turned on.
Using an air fryer for a year would cost £50 quid per year to power, while electric and gas cost £300 and £250 a year respectively. We haven't used our oven in a year now except for Christmas when we did a turkey, and have seen the savings in our usage.
All things we should probably be doing anyway but due to cheap energy majority of people haven't bothered. None of that is going to help a 95 year old pensioner but lot of people can benefit from reviewing their energy use without belittling it to making £6 savings.
Earlier this week, money-saving expert Martin Lewis shared a guide to help “heat the human not the home” amid the energy-cap rise, and he revealed that an electric blanket (costing £14) costs 3p an hour to run, which equals £1.37 per week if used for seven hours a day.
If we then calculate this cost over a month, the cost is approximately £5.48 per month.
From October, energy will cost 34p per kWh, therefore, it would cost approximately £1.02 per hour to run an electric heater.
If we use these calculations, if you left your heater on for an evening while watching TV for say, four hours, it would cost £4.08, and if you did that every day for a week, it would cost £28.56.
If we take this on a monthly average, this adds up to around £115 per month.
According to research by Energy Helpline, keeping your radiators on for nine hours a day costs £10.80and, over the course of a week, that would amount to £75.60 per week, and around a whopping £330 per month.
Overall, it’s cheaper to run an electric blanket per month. However, this doesn’t take into consideration the upfront cost of an electric blanket, the costs of keeping the radiators on overnight, or using an electric heater all day.
