How About Forming Co-Operatives?

Just an idea!! - How about the idea of forming Co-Operatives to purchase and install wood pellet boilers?

Why you may ask would we want to do that? The simple answer is to short circuit the Rip-Off merchants and thus to encourage more people to go over to wood pelleted heating systems. It would also be an excellent way of distributing the necessary information to people by means of those without vested interests and large profits as motivation.

Apart from getting the gougers out of the loop, wouldn't it be loverly to get a wood based system really going in Ireland.

IDEA #2!!

If even only we got to 20% of Irish homes which were using wood pellet heating, this would create many many hundreds of jobs.

There would be the farmers who would grow the fast growing trees that could be harvested every two years or so. This method of fuel harvesting is called Bio-Mass. The sally tree is particularly suitable to re-cropping. The roots remain in the ground and the growth is cropped ever two years or so.

Then there is the Bio-Mass handling and the Pelleting Business', and finally there is a distribution business. Lots and lots of jobs - and it all aids both the Environment and the Economy.

Government not Interested in Gougers!

The blatant and enormous abuses of the Grant Scheme by the price gougers does not seem to be of any great interest to the government agencies. The SEI is just not interested - their job is just to promote the alternatives, they are not interested in policing their recommended dealers and installers. Yet, by virture of SEI putting them on a recommended list, I believe they have some responsibility to make sure that these people do not abuse their advantage.

The Office of the Director of Consumer Affairs is not interested in policing rip-offs, I have an e-mail which says so. Their job is to inform the public to WATCH YOUR BACK.

It is we the people who will have to tackle this outrageous situation ourselves.