I've never felt the need to own a Patio Heater - until now.
A really powerful, fuel hungry, Patio Heater is now the top item in my most-wanted list!

Mike Bibby, St Albans, England -not EU

Given the carbon footprint of the 'EU', flying delegates and hangers on, to the various conferences, rather than say, tele-conferencing, it's quite hypocritical of them to tell us to stay bloody cold!

Lead by example I say, and they just aint doing that!

Given a few years, being happy will be outlawed in Europe.

Arthur, Newcastle,

So instead of extending my outdoor living into the Fall I shall simply go abroad, with a much higher carbon footprint. When will they realise that legislating energy saving is a highly inefficient way of trying to limit energy consumption. If you really want to limit it raise prices instead. Any economist can tell you that it is a far more efficient means of intervention.

Ian, Frederick, USA/MD

Rubbish.

They should probably ban woolley jumpers, as the sheep that provide the wool produce an awful lot of methane - a far worse green house gas than CO2.

Perhaps we should also ban all jewellery - after all, all the CO2 used in the smelting process and working of metal is enourmous - how dare we enjoy luxury! Jewellery, like patio-heaters, serve no function other than "feel good".

Why not also ban hot drinks - all that energy used in boiling kettles must produce a huge amount of CO2.

If patio heaters are bad "because we could just put on warm clothes", then why not ban all heating indoors, where we could also just put on warmer clothes?

Come to think of it, let's just go back to the stone age: planet saved and we're all the better for it.

What's the point of saving the planet, if what we have saved cannot be enjoyed anyway?

Dominic, London, UK