Who will pay

spot1034

Section62 said:

tghe-retford said:

We're not talking of the odd device turned off here, an extra layer there. We're talking in levels of the savings needed would require poor and low paid households to turn off their gas and electric completely. Even the prospect of people having to live in shared housing in large groups or emigration to a cheaper country.

We're potentially talking of turning off terrestrial television multiplexes and analogue radio to save energy.

And if to save energy we are asked to work three days a week and take a 40% pay cut, all bets are off.

I think you are in danger of crossing the line into scaremongering with comments like those.

Have to say I had the same thought when I read it. 

maisie_cat

spot1034 said:

I don't think any blackouts of this sort would be long enough to be a problem for freezers, provided of-course that they were kept closed. We'd probably be be talking about two or three hours at peak time, perhaps less and, given that any shortfall would probably be a fairly small percentage, if extended rationing were to be needed it could be shared out, with different areas being disconnected for shortish periods rather than one unfortunate location being singled out for a prolonged disconnection.

I agree, my cousins in South Africa have rolling blackouts and manage okay, if I remember rightly there's a timetable of sorts.

The_Green_Hornet

Section62 said:

tghe-retford said:

We're not talking of the odd device turned off here, an extra layer there. We're talking in levels of the savings needed would require poor and low paid households to turn off their gas and electric completely. Even the prospect of people having to live in shared housing in large groups or emigration to a cheaper country.

We're potentially talking of turning off terrestrial television multiplexes and analogue radio to save energy.

And if to save energy we are asked to work three days a week and take a 40% pay cut, all bets are off.

I think you are in danger of crossing the line into scaremongering with comments like those.

I think that line was crossed a long time ago.

Swipe

Don't worry, demand destruction will soon be applied once people get their autumn bills.

EssexHebridean

It's the same as I said about the various comments about civil unrest and even rioting that have been blithely being bandied about on here - there seems to be a subset who are viewing that possibility almost with glee. Same with the prospect of energy outages in the colder months - again there does feel as though there is some hand-rubbing going on around it - as though it's being viewed as a nice bit of excitement. I'm guessing if you are someone on a low income, perhaps with a health condition which means you feel the cold more severely, it doesn't feel very "exciting" though...