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How can an individual understand and influence the risk preparedness of the whole grid? It's one thing to pay 3-4x for a day or be uncomfortably but safely warm
by anarazel 6y ago
How can an individual understand and influence the risk preparedness of the whole grid? It's one thing to pay 3-4x for a day or be uncomfortably but safely warm. But a whole other thing to have costs increased by several orders of magnitude or alternatively freeze to death / heat with you gas stove/oven and suffer carbon monoxide poisoning / ....
People freezing to death because they can't afford to heat has externalized cost at a certain scale. Even if you just want to look at the economic effects.
- fastball 6y agoIs it? Again, I was without power and water (not by choice) for > 72hrs and I didn't freeze to death. I would've appreciated having the choice to pay the insane (market) rate for electricity, but I didn't get a choice at all. If you're close to freezing to death and have access to a supply of electricity, turn your power on and take the hit.
- rocketpastsix 6y ago>I didn't freeze to death congrats on not dying, however others were not so lucky, and I fear these number of dead will grow in the coming days.
- fastball 6y agoMy point wasn't that it's impossible to die, my point was that if you're someone who had the option to use electricity but didn't and therefore froze to death, that's definitely your fault. You can't conflate "omg people are dying" with "omg the prices were too high". The two problems are literally mutually exclusive.