Well, they have took off in Europe due to the cost of natural gas and … the source being a evil dictator who uses his control over natural gas to control other countries foreign policy.
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OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 10 months agoRight, they make absolute sense if you don’t have access to cheap natural gas. I’m worried for the day NG prices rise though. It’ll be a double whammy for those of us in SK with the vast majority of the heating in the populated south provided by NG and a grid that has a significant portion produced by NG. You’ll see the increase even if you aren’t heating with gas.
randon31415@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Governments need to punish carbon emitting fuel sources more. People are going to use the cheaper option, not the one that will benefit the planet. It needs to be cheaper to use renewable energy, or at the very least energy efficient options need incentives.
Koordinator_O@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, they most definitely should not! Implementing such a measure unnecessarily increases the difficulty for low-income families. Instead, there should be support for the installation or a tax reduction for those who have one. Let’s focus on making it easier for people to adopt environmentally friendly practices without making things more expensive.
orrk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
tax reduction only really works to incentivize people that aren’t poor
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A better option would be a discount on the electrical bill for having green tech installed. If you want to help poor families, help their month to month costs.
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is still blind to the fact that those families could be in much much worse condition in 50 years if we don’t drastically change our carbon emissions. The increasingly frequent and more dangerous natural disasters could very easily leave them without a home at all. Low income families will also be the ones to suffer the most when it comes to the worsening climate disaster
Koordinator_O@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t deny that. However, forcing people to change by making things more expensive only harms these families. Of course, the ongoing climate situation is concerning, but in the short term, we also need to take care of those who are financially vulnerable. We can’t just let them go under.