Fuel prices!
So if you can possibly get a good supply of logs to burn in your stone fireplace, then you are going some way to reducing your fuel costs and being a bit greener: Burning wood is considered to be ‘carbon neutral’. However, if you’re in the centre of a city perhaps, or live in an apartment block, the burning of wood may not be practical. Your next step is there fore to find the cheapest energy supplier, and if you’re concerned about green issues, then you can seek out an ‘ethical’ energy supplier, and the latter are growing.
The big power companies are ruthless organisations. We’ve had big trouble with British Gas supplying our electricity and giving appalling service. We have therefore changed to Eon.
Of course we all try and cut down on our energy use these days because it is all so dauntingly expensive. So if you are lucky enough to have space or possibility to have a ‘natural’ source of heating like an open fire, then you should pursue it, as it seems certain that energy prices are never going to come down, unless some one invents some very efficient systems.