You can choose to heat your own home with electricity, natural gas, propane (guess what, if you filled your propane tank last month, you didn't pay "surge" pricing), wood, etc, etc.
Or just turn down the thermostat, put on more clothes, chop some wood, do some jumping jacks, etc.
You can't buy property and live off the land or off the grid.
WTF? Really?
A large number of preppers would like a word with you...
It's a socialist game to act like you didn't have any choices and someone else should be responsible to take care of you.
I do agree that we should remove more regulation, allowing people more choice, but I don't currently believe it would have changed much here.
A $17k electric bill sucks, but that's what happens when you hit record energy pricing and make absolutely no accommodation in your consumption. Personal responsibility is a thing.
Any attempt to soften this blow, without holding the consumers responsible, will WEAKEN our ability to weather a crisis like this in the future.
Not true, brother.
You can choose to heat your own home with electricity, natural gas, propane (guess what, if you filled your propane tank last month, you didn't pay "surge" pricing), wood, etc, etc.
Or just turn down the thermostat, put on more clothes, chop some wood, do some jumping jacks, etc.
WTF? Really?
A large number of preppers would like a word with you...
It's a socialist game to act like you didn't have any choices and someone else should be responsible to take care of you.
I do agree that we should remove more regulation, allowing people more choice, but I don't currently believe it would have changed much here.
A $17k electric bill sucks, but that's what happens when you hit record energy pricing and make absolutely no accommodation in your consumption. Personal responsibility is a thing.
Any attempt to soften this blow, without holding the consumers responsible, will WEAKEN our ability to weather a crisis like this in the future.
Quit with the emotional arguments!