I received a grant from the government of €3530 (€2880 for the PVs and €560 for the water heater) I took a loan of €4770 which I have to repay in 5 years at 2.8% interest.

I pay €57 a month so I am already saving a lot of money while I am repaying my investment and I will save much more once the loan has been repaid.

I sell an average of 8 units per day whereas I use around 4-6 units per day since I have bought low consuming appliances. I earn 25 c per unit so on the long run my bill will always be -0.

@ Lomax

Same here. My once yearly payments of my life insurance and car insurance cost more then twice a whole year’s worth of water and electricity bills (house and holiday residences both of which are hardly rabbit hutches).

All the hype about sky-high energy bills is incomprehensible.

If, on the other hand, people persist in wasting, then it is their fault and they should not expect to keep being subsidized by those who are thrifty and who have got their priorities right.

This is a very interesting point. I cannot, for the life of me, understand what all this hullabaloo about water and electricity tariffs is all about.

Our household is made up of two persons but we do not get astronomical bills.

We spend more on my house loan per month than on our water and electricity for a whole year.

Frankly, I think we spend more on mobiles and internet per month than water and electricity for 3 months. We certainly spend more on entertainment than any other thing (including, travel, of course).

Hence, when I hear people complaining of their utility bills and then I have a good look at them, I wonder whether they really know what they are talking about. What do they expect? Free water and electricity?

Yes and no,

I say they’ve got contracts practically signed to keep from our knowledge. The hitch is the terminal required. CCS, as you say remains another commercial option.

The details mentioned by Mizzi last Monday link energy trading as a commodity, just like CO2, to one major broker in the UK. Mizzi also mentioned examples of who could do this.

To understand the risks, all one has to do is to look up the California energy crisis. If the idea is to sign off the corporation’s debts to these guys we will be at their mercy. When Joseph met Mario Monti, Alex Sciberras Trigona was present.

As for land reclamation, what got to me was Joseph’s usual tendency to grasp the concept in the worst way possible, (jaqbadhom minn sormhom kull darba), If we have to, let’s please not look at excavation material as the basic resource, there is a thing called the caisson.

What is certain, is that his manifesto will be what his lobbyists fed him. We’ll see a return of quantified destruction post 1992 as the only criterion to progress.

The implications, given the building stock, are bloody serious.

Maybe he is wondering how his Orange Cruises business will move ahead under Labour?

Have I become dyslexic? Not to worry, I’ll get my own facilitator and perhaps I’ll try my luck with her too.

Woops, wrong girl. Damn, I must cut down on my planting of the wild oats.

[Daphne – Sowing, Baxxter. You’re slipping.]

No but her father (Raymond “is-sentina”) did. He also threatened to beat me to a pulp if I ever looked at his daughter again. I had quoted Baudelaire in his presence and now he has me down as gay.

So Ritienne and I carry on in secret, consummating our clandestine love affair in dark parking lots and or near unlit wayside chapels.

Qisu is-sigriet ta’ Fatima.