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The Scottish Government have introduced a home insulation scheme that has definitely helped people to reduce their heating costs, whether they have gas or oil. It has incentivised people to install solar panels and heat pumps, but not every building is suitable for solar panels or for using heat pumps efficiently—and certainly not for operating exclusively on heat pumps. So many homes will require some form of fired heating, whether it is gas—which we are trying to phase out—or oil, which we also want to phase out. By the way, oil is significantly cheaper than gas at the moment—that has not been the norm in my experience, but right now it is. So people are not in a hurry to get rid of their oil heating unless they can find something that is no more expensive.