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Letter to the Daily Telegraph |
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Written by Peter D. Wilson
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
Joanna Yarrow makes some very sensible suggestions for reducing personal carbon footprints, but converting to a green energy tariff is not one of them. It ought surely to be obvious that anyone receiving electricity from the mains supply must draw it from exactly the same mix of sources as everyone else connected to the common grid. Paying for it to a "green" supplier no doubt gives a glow of self-satisfaction, and may contribute a little to future renewable sources, but it cannot make a scrap of difference to the amount of carbon dioxide released in generating the energy actually used. Only reducing consumption can do that, and claiming otherwise is to promote a pernicious illusion.
Peter D. Wilson
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