Friday, April 09, 2010
Government at Work - Free energy saving bulbs
This is different. And NUTS, I might add...
Harry Wallop writes about it in the U.K. Telegraph:
"More than 200 million free energy-saving light bulbs have been sent to households over the last two years by energy suppliers. The mass mail-out was caused by gas and electricity suppliers trying to hit Government targets to reduce carbon emissions.
However, Which?, the consumer watchdog has calculated that each household has ended paying £45 each through higher energy bills to fund the scheme, even though many consumers objected to being sent the bulbs. Many complained about having to go to the Post Office to collect what they thought was a parcel, only to find it was a bulb that did not even fit any of their lamps.
'Consumers unwittingly paid for them to help energy companies avoid fines,' the Which? report said."
