Because coal is too expensive.
Volunteers have reported that ‘a large number’ of elderly customers are snapping up hardbacks as cheap fuel for their fires and stoves.
Temperatures this week are forecast to plummet as low as -13ºC in the Scottish Highlands, with the mercury falling to -6ºC in London, -5ºC in Birmingham and -7ºC in Manchester as one of the coldest winters in years continues to bite.
Workers at one charity shop in Swansea, in south Wales, described how the most vulnerable shoppers were seeking out thick books such as encyclopaedias for a few pence because they were cheaper than coal.One assistant said: ‘Book burning seems terribly wrong but we have to get rid of unsold stock for pennies and some of the pensioners say the books make ideal slow-burning fuel for fires and stoves.
A lot of them buy up large hardback volumes so they can stick them in the fire to last all night.’A 500g book can sell for as little as 5p, while a 20kg bag of coal costs £5.
A smoldering plot, indeed.
I’m not talking about what is between the book covers, I’m talking about the eco-socialist plot to make fossil fuels too expensive for people to use so they don’t freeze to death with all the glowball warmening.
…and that’s not real coal, either, which was banned from private use back in the ’70s. It’s briquettes made of a mixture of sawdust, charcoal and a little bit of coal slack (dust). It’s not nearly as good a fuel as real coal. The Brits call it “Solid Fuel”. It burns OK in a coal cookstove, such as might be found in a country-house, but it will barely get the stove hot enough to use the oven. I was witness to this madness over there in the winter of ’82.
At the risk of sounding like a complete nutball, given all of the anti-survival things that the eco-tools want us to do, I have to wonder if the actual agenda really is to have all Mr. Scrooge’s “surplus population” starve to death in the freezing dark.