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It's not a good solution for poor people to have to choose between heat stroke and a huge bill.
by jimmaswell 4y ago
It's not a good solution for poor people to have to choose between heat stroke and a huge bill.
- DennisP 4y agoThis is solvable by giving everyone a fixed rebate.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoTypically this is done by utilities with price tiers (first 1000kwh costs X, next 1000kwh costs X * multiplier, etc). This trivially encourages conservation and discourages excessive consumption without complicated taxing and rebates. With that said, ERCOT has $20B worth of renewables projects in the interconnect pipeline, so the cost of energy should trend down over the next 3-5 years.
- deepsun 4y agoPoor people would pay way, way less than wasters. Also rebates or progressive costs (same as PG&E in California already does) can control that even more. But still I think those businesses I've seen waste like 100x more than normal household, so we only need to make the price non-negligible.