"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 18:05:00 +0100, Tony Bryer
wrote:

In article , Andy Hall
wrote:
You missed the point. Legislating for the construction industry to
have to build all, or even a proportion of eco houses is not going to
necessarily make people buy them. Such a notion is a gross
simplification.

Perhaps, but Gordon Brown's company car tax changes (of which I am a
major beneficiary) have changed what is being made (imagine a diesel
BMW or Jaguar 10 years back) and what people are buying.

Well.... yes..... However the timescales are going to be a lot
longer.

A car has a lifetime of two or three years in the fleet market, and
may last on the road for another ten. Therefore changes in taxation
and other government meddling have an effect pretty quickly.

Houses have a lifetime of a hundred years or more so changes will take
much longer to have an impact.

Your lack of common sense amazes me. We are short of about 4 million homes.
The government can easily make most of them eco homes. And also any
extension can also be eco. Then there is the conservatories which are heated
and burn fuel like crazy. There must be a way of preventing these from being
built. Most people would rather have a proper roofed high insulated
extension, so provision to make them easier to build rather than energy
sucking conservatories is the way.