@2fd7551e To take the car example. I would imagine you'll
a) Have a bunch of people demanding exemptions for their expensive 'classic' car
b) Have more people concerned about the monitoring data/rules being misused by the government or sold on to third parties
If you can precisely define how the rules/data will be used (with non overridable mechanisms to stop them being misusued), anonymise the data (using auditable techniques) and block exemptions (with subsidies if necessary) then fine.
@2fd7551e I would see charging up your phone the night before (when usage was lower) as changing your behaviour so 'desirable'. If your response is to go buy a big generator though, then that's not helping.
Perhaps rather than personal solar we should encourage people instead to spend that money on community solar instead. Give discounts on your usage until your expenses are covered but everyone gets to use it and discounts for all when the costs are covered.
@2fd7551e It's a societal ownership thing for me I think. I'd like to see more services being universal, regardless of your skills/income as that way there's an incentive for those in power to make them better. If electricity becomes another two tier provision then the motivation to improve things goes down.
Make those rules universal (and have them managed just based on pollution/environment levels not factory X needs more power) then I'm in.
@2fd7551e As with all legislation the key is how it's enforced. What I suspect would happen is the rich (who would also tend to be the highest polluting) would find workarounds which are probably worse (local generators, just paying the fines etc) whereas the rest of us are hit with brownouts.
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