Every little helps when it comes to cutting energy costs

To shoplift a phrase from a supermarket that no doubt spent millions on it, every little helps and sometimes the little things can help quite a lot. Photograph: Bryan O BrienIt is fair to say that some of the tips for saving money and reducing our energy usage made by transport and environment minister and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan in recent months have not gone down entirely well with some members of the public.

We digress. While lopping a minute off your morning shower will not keep the wolves from the door this winter and doing 110km/h on a motorway instead of a reckless 140 will not leave the Inflation monster coughing and spluttering in your wake, a series of actions — some big and some small — will go some way to offsetting the savage energy price hikes we have endured since this time last year.

In Spain, shop window lighting is now switched off at 10pm — closing time for many shops there while limits on air conditioning and heating in public spaces are being imposed. German shops now have to close their doors to reduce the use of air conditioning and heating while illuminated advertising and monuments will have to go dark. In France energy inefficient swimming pools are to close and a whole lot more besides.

With energy companies rolling out multiple price hikes over the last 12 months most Irish households will have to pay more than €2,000 more on heating and lighting their homes, cooking their meals, washing their clothes and themselves and generally going about their lives than they did in 2021. He highlights the importance of “having the heating on when you need it and where you need it and at the temperature or the comfort level that you need. Even if a person has the most basic of timers and thermostats, it’s possible to do that reasonably. You need your heat on about for 30 minutes before you come in and then 30 minutes before you leave or go to bed, you can turn it off. So there’s an awful lot of potential to save.

He suggests that once people have “been really judicious about how they get heat into the home they should look at how do they keep that heat in the home.” Des Bishop did that great hatchet job on the immersion and he was right. It terrorised us as much as Peig Sayers did in the 1980s

And it's morally a good thing to do as well re emissions. OurChildrensFuture

Freeze yourself, while the Government spends your taxes in some place else

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