[Magdalen] gas prices?

[Jim Guthrie]

From: ME Michaud

>"Hah! We're making money," they replied, "and
>as electricity prices rise, we'll be making even
>more."

At some point, the rate structure will be redone, so the "profit" is less --
basically, there'll be a wire charge separate from the supply of electric power
(in wither direction).

Some places have been implementing this or trying to do so, but the solar people
think that the wire should be "free" and that won’t be the case for long. Of
course, the other 800 lb gorilla is that when the rate structure is strictly on
usage (maybe with a minimum charge for no power usage) it means that A1%er
living on an estate with a long wire to the distribution transformer pays the
same for power as poor people crowded into an urban apartment with a vey short
(and not subject to blizzards, ice storms, lightning, hurricanes, tornados
etc.). Ditto in most suburban communities.

I'm sure everyone who lives in such places with such rate structures are happy
to be ripping off poor in urban areas for their own benefit.

The widespread adoption of Solar should put this practice to an end -- surely a 
lagniappe. Now if they could do that with Cable TV and Wired Telephones  as well 
. . .

At least we don’t hear anyone complaining about how the urban poor get to
subsidize the 1% (and I realize that many 1% also have an urban apartment which
should also have a minimum wire charge, as opposed to their suburban home or the
McMansion on the Beach.

>-M, who grew up with a woodstove in the house, ayuh

We had one in the house in Maine, ayuh. Dad and my grandmother knew how to work
it properly so the house could stay nice and toasty through the night, and
they'd be up early to make things warmer for the rest of us getting out of bed.
Cheers,

Cheers,
Jim Guthrie