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[Sir Tigger KC]

How long before electic blankets are banned. 

Nooooooooooooo!   

[dbug]

If you need a new vacuum cleaner and want a powerful one then buy one quick as soon you won't be able to buy one over 1600 watts and after 2017 vacuum cleaners will be limited to 900 watts! 

Why?    Well according to the EU we're using too much electricity cleaning our homes and are causing climate change!    So whats next in their sights? Washing machines?, Tumble Dryers?, Lawn Mowers?, Cookers?   

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28878432

Right I'm off to invent the petrol vacuum cleaner! 

V8 powered I trust

[Broomies Mate]

Oh come on - This isn't about energy consumption, this is about the EU flexing it's muscle and stopping imports from the Asian market.

They are subsidising R&D for many European manufacturers and will more than likely subsidise a marketing plan for models which have [more than likely] already been produced.

Dyson use 1300W if my memory serves.

[Kevin Wood]

What worries me is that the highly paid group of ministers that have come up with this ruling clearly fail to realise that my vacuum cleaner gets used for 15 minutes whenever someone important is coming around - so average consumption is probably less than a Watt. Yet your average Sky box takes about 30 Watts day and night.

[Kevin Wood]

Oh, and I think I need to get a 2 stroke vacuum cleaner, just to poke them in the eye.

[Bigron]

Who was it that allowed the inmates to run the asylum?

Ron. (That was just me signing off, NOT admitting responsibility!)

[Sir Tigger KC]

What worries me is that the highly paid group of ministers unelected bureaucrats that have come up with this ruling clearly fail to realise that my vacuum cleaner gets used for 15 minutes whenever someone important is coming around - so average consumption is probably less than a Watt. Yet your average Sky box takes about 30 Watts day and night.

Fixed that for you Kevin. 

[cleggy]

I don't know why we don't just tell the EU to get stuffed, every other country does. We'll be back to hanging carpets on the washing line and beating them to clean them. ( yes I am old enough to remember it).
We have to get out of this unelected meglomainiac state that France and Germany want..

[Broomies Mate]

I don't know why we don't just tell the EU to get stuffed.

I agree - It won't be an organised revolt though.  The population will just continue to live as they always have and the law(s) imposed will be unenforceable.

We mostly agree on everything in the western world (murder, theft, drugs etc) but some of the red tape we all ignore anyway.

[hotel21]

Very slightly off topic but relevant, I think, none the less.

Is it not the EU who insist via 'rools and regs' that high viz clothing is used as much as it is now in the UK?

Anyone see such a compliance in the rest of the EU?

Thought not..... 

[Tony H]

What a load of #ollocks If the EU want to really reduce electricity consumption they should legislate against large office blocks leaving the lights on all night. I'll also wager that Britain is the has the most carpeted houses in Europe the other countries having tiled or wooden flooring, so as posted earlier it's about time Britain stuck two fingers up to the overpaid beurocrats in Brussels much like the rest of the EU member countries that don't like directives that come out of Brussels e.g Spanish trawler owners and fisheries policy but that's another story don't get be started on EU policies  I fell a rant coming on !!!

[Varche]

Very slightly off topic but relevant, I think, none the less.

Is it not the EU who insist via 'rools and regs' that high viz clothing is used as much as it is now in the UK?

Anyone see such a compliance in the rest of the EU?

Thought not..... 

Ten years or so ago the EU mandarins said road deaths were very high across the EU. get them down they said to member countries. Britain chose a policy of installing shed loads of speed cameras. Spain chose among its initiatives high vis jackets mandatory for carrying in vehicles and must be used if you stop on a road and get out e.g. breakdown, puncture. I would say that is fine. I remember two OAP's getting mown down on the M1 near Leicester when their car broke down about 12 years ago.

Tony H . I agree with you about office block lights on overnight. Madness but it is OK to the business because the cost is recouped from you the customer.

I sound like I am a supporter of the EU. I am not now.

[hotel21]

Agree with that varche but how many yellow jackets and vests are seen in the UK on a daily basis?  Every commercial driver, trolley pusher, dog walker, brush pusher, shelf stacker, plant potter, bin emptier, maccy D employee outwith the serving counter -list is, literally, endless. I say the number visable goes a long way to reducing effectiveness as well as showing sheep like compliance to EU directives that the majority of the EU ignore?

To paraphrase a saying of old.

Laws are for the guidance of fools and interpretation of the wise....

[Taxi_Driver]

What a load of #ollocks If the EU want to really reduce electricity consumption they should legislate against large office blocks leaving the lights on all night. I'll also wager that Britain is the has the most carpeted houses in Europe the other countries having tiled or wooden flooring, so as posted earlier it's about time Britain stuck two fingers up to the overpaid beurocrats in Brussels much like the rest of the EU member countries that don't like directives that come out of Brussels e.g Spanish trawler owners and fisheries policy but that's another story don't get be started on EU policies  I fell a rant coming on !!!

If they are fluorescent tubes.....it actually saves leccy/money by leaving them on all night....the start up current on these tubes are high and are only efficient when they have 'warmed up'...if the security bods kept turning them on/off every hour on their walkabouts.....they would use more leccy 

I'll also add most security cameras inside office buildings cannot see in the dark....so theres another reason for leaving the lights on all night