All my Eco decisions, outrageously expensive at the time, have come good. My mates hate me 'coz every time they dine out on my expenditure, they then wind up with humble pie for desert!
Spent a fortune (2007-ish) on a biomass boiler (not something Mr Corgi could install, so was all "speciality stuff"). Coupled it with Accumulator, Solar Thermal. and lots of complicated / expensive plumbing. (Oil boiler was knackered, so I had to spend SOME money). Price of oil shot up ... I now pay 7x less for my logs than oil would cost me
Bought Model-S in 2015 after being shafted by VW on DieselGate. My mates thought I was nuts spending 4x as much on a car as the BlueMotion Golf it replaced. They went a bit green when I took them for a ride (I got the Performance model you see ...). Dunno if that was envy-green though. Got the full grant back then of course, and started taking advantage of 100% FYA, lower BIK, and got the grant for the wall-charger back then too ... and the cheap per-mile cost. I was doing 35K miles a year and saving £4,000 p.a. on fuel ... free supercharging too (I've had over 4,000 kWh in that time).
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But I do like the driver aids in my BMW / Porsche is a proper drivers car" etc etc etc
I did 95K miles over 3 years and sold it for 50% trade in. My BMW / Merc Mates didn't think that was Cricket ...
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You paid HOW much for those PowerWalls?" ...
2022 Electricity prices rise ... "
Decided to follow your example and get a PowerWall, but its 12 months delivery ..." Bad luck mate!!
2022 "
You bought a Model-Y to replace your Model-3 - they are like £10K more than the M3. How much did you get for trade in." "
HOW MUCH!!"
So long as you don't tell my mates that I had no idea any of this was going to happen then I'll carry on letting them believe I have crystals balls