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Who are you to determine that using 1kWh for an evening of TV and 500Wh baking a potato is more essential than me using 70Wh cooking my potato in a microwave an
by iso1631 4y ago
Who are you to determine that using 1kWh for an evening of TV and 500Wh baking a potato is more essential than me using 70Wh cooking my potato in a microwave and 20Wh reading a book while looking at some nice christmas lights.
If we want to ration electric use, increase the costs. Add say 50c/kWh, and let people determine what they want to reduce.
If we want to ensure people can still use an essential amount, say 10kWh a day or whatever, give everyone €150 a month to pay the extra costs, funded from the extra costs of those choosing to run incandescent light bulbs.
In the UK we did the complete opposite, we chose to subsidise electric consumption.
- Volundr 4y ago> Who are you to determine that using 1kWh for an evening of TV and 500Wh baking a potato is more essential than me using 70Wh cooking my potato in a microwave and 20Wh reading a book while looking at some nice christmas lights. Me? I'm no one, and did not attempt to. I only pointed out that the comparison to cooking and having Christmas lights is nonsensical, given the clear difference in impacts not eating vs not looking at pretty lights once a year has on ones health. As for if disallowing Christmas lights makes any sense in a power crisis, well it'd take more research than I have any interest in doing to answer that question, so I offer no opinion, beyond noting that a surprising number of Christmas lights are incandescence still, so the impact might be larger than you'd assume, and every little bit helps. As for using market prices to solve everything that ensures the rich feel no restrictions while everyone else does. If your OK with that is up to you.