British households face a gas boiler ban within 14 years which could cost thousands to replace.
Households may also be hit with “financial penalties” if they don’t replace their old gas boilers with the expensive green alternatives.
Almost a third of the UK’s carbon emissions come from heating systems, with ministers warned this must be rapidly cut to hit their vow to make the country carbon neutral by 2050.
The government is said to be discussing a cut-off date of 2035, when the use of gas boilers in existing homes would be phased out.
It comes after reports that gas boilers will be banned in all new-build homes from 2023 – two years earlier than planned.
The Business department wants to make it mandatory for anyone replacing a conventional gas boiler or doing significant renovations to go green.
MP Steve Baker has said this could cause massive anger and poverty across the UK:
“The policy elite have persuaded themselves there is a consensus for net zero without anyone bothering to explain the implications to the public.
‘When people do work out the cost and impact on their lives there is going to be a huge backlash.
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