[backtoyoujim]

Once my house has a battery large enough to where I won't end up going ballistic on my energy company for having 24+ hour power outages I am fine with moving away from gas.

But I am not going to live with losing power a dozen times a year for up to a day at a time because a corporation wants my life to be the tip of the misery spear instead of their profit margins taking a hit.

[bittercynic]

When you "go ballistic" are you verbally abusing a csr in a call center somewhere who already has an unpleasant and difficult job, or finding a way to apply pressure to someone who has some power to improve the situation?

[parkingrift]

Fitting your username that you would assume OP is verbally abusing someone at a call center.

[drivebycomment]

Where do you live ? Dozen times a year power outage sounds very rough.

[macinjosh]

Just wait until the bean counters force everyone to only use electricity for energy. Grids will be overloaded and will go out consistently. They will also just turn off your electricity if you do something they don’t like.

[drivebycomment]

By bean counters you mean environmentalist / climate activists convincing politicians ? A common meaning of bean counters - who only cares about money - would never do that.

And if you think general populace in the first world countries will suffer through consistent blackout, I think you are utterly and completely mistaken.

[macinjosh]

And I think you are wrong too. So what? I’m in my thirties and the climate change was supposed to end the world about 4 different times and now and nothing has happened.

It’s about power and control, period.

[macinjosh]

Do you read anything, like, at all? Finance plays a _huge_ role in the climate change machinery. Carbon credits, ESG, regulations and more. Thems the bean counters.

[drivebycomment]

Your original assertion:

> the bean counters force everyone to only use electricity for energy.

In carbon credit or esg or other regulations, finance / bean counters serve a means to the end, not the primary motive. Thus, I am disagreeing with this sentence, since bean counters are not who would be the primary movers to make this happen, but rather just an accessory / mean to the end. I.e. bean counters of a typical meaning would generally oppose such.

> Do you read anything, like, at all?

You may want to read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html if you haven't yet. For what it's worth, I like economics and so do read, and I consider myself a proponent of the carbon tax.