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The perils of trying to heat rural homes
Western Daily Press
|March 10, 2026
I HAVE just read a newspaper headline which reads: “Rural homes facing price hike as war rages’.
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Solar panels on the roof of a house in Nottinghamshire
(Joseph Raynor)
By pure luck, two weeks ago, we replenished our heating oil tank. 1,000 litres of oil costing some £600. Rachel Reeves took 5% of that for the Treasury.
In our inbox this morning was an offer from one of the fuel suppliers for 1,000 litres costing £1,450. Rachel would have taken her 5% for the Treasury, a win-win situation for the Chancellor.
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