Science has shown that even just building high-end housing will lower housing prices across the board: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119022001048?via%3Dihub
They take the money from the rich people, lowering prices in the middle class, lowering prices for the lower class.
Literally just building more houses does work though.
I mean, we do that. Just say it's good to censor bad things. There's nothing wrong with that, so don't lie about what you're doing.
I think it's more like this: Say maintenance of a grid costs $1 million/year, power generation costs another $1 million/year and people use 10 million kWh/yr at 20¢ per. Everything is balanced. Then half the people cut their usage in half. Grid maintenance still costs $1 million/year, generation dropped to $750,000, but revenue dropped to $1.5 million. They have to raise the price 16% to go back to paying for maintenance. You're still saving money if you dropped your usage more than 16%, but those that didn't pay the difference.
Since you generally have to be fairly well-off to afford the massive upfront labor costs involved with solar, its adoption has disproportionately raised the living expenses of the lower class.
The alternative is a base services charge, where everyone pays a flat percentage of the grid maintenance costs and then his or her usage is on top of that. No idea why it's taking this long for PG&E to adopt that model, but adding charges for solar is a big improvement in equity.
I thought it's widely-agreed that gender dysphoria is a mental illness. The debate lies in how to treat it—try to realign the body with the mind or the mind with the body.
What power grids receive public funds for upgrades? Even my public grid on the mainland is funded entirely by my municipality and state.
It was privatized under Trump after all the rolling blackouts the public grid kept having. So far it has actually rather improved in quality somehow.
They would be either way. For the moment there is some hope and evidence things are getting better instead of just endlessly sliding worse and worse.
Really, really pessimistic hope though lol
So he's just completely delusional?
https://ipa-reader.com/ is also helpful.