Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Ways How To Reduce Your Energy Bills This Winter By Draught Proofing Your Home

By Craig Beck


You will do well to study how to reduce your energy bills this winter by draught proofing your home. So much energy is lost through the walls and roofs of inefficient buildings.

The general public and governments have been taken aback at the severity of recent winters. People cannot understand how comes it has turned so cold and governments have been left embarrassed by their unpreparedness. However, surprise is understandable since we have all been led to believe that the world is undergoing global warming right now. People question how freezing temperatures fit in with what we have been told.

Well it seems that some people are not surprised at all and that there are models in which cooling temperatures are consistent with theories of global warming. If you have seen the movie the day after tomorrow, you may know something about the theories of ice caps melting and excess water leaking into the oceans thus creating a reduction in salinity. According to the theory, if this happens the gulf stream can no longer warm up the northern hemisphere and we could all be in for a very rude awakening. Things could suddenly freeze over very quickly.

Even if the gulf stream theory does not come to pass, there are other theories for impending freezing temperatures over longer periods. It has been suggested that we could be entering another ice age. Indeed some people argue we have been in one all along and only experienced temporary respites. According to them it is due to get a whole lot colder very soon.

Another important reason for making winter plans is due to hikes in energy prices. As the world slips into deepening political crises and economic chaos, we can expect that oil and gas producing nations may fall into unrest thus hampering oil production. If that does not happen then they could start hoarding their supplies or and thus reducing supply. If this happened it could drive up the price.

If it suddenly got colder or there was global warfare, this would have a dramatic effect on the supply and cost of fuel. And the problems do not have to stem from outside for this to be the case. Not many of us consider what might happen if the economy does not recover as we hope for quite a while to come. If there is increasing unemployment people will have less to spend on energy costs or any other costs for that matter.

There has never been a better time to discern how to reduce your energy bills this winter by draught proofing your home. Demand for fuel may be so high in the coming years, we may all need to economize with it as much as possible.




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