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Old 01-27-2013, 07:04 AM   #398 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
It's an attitude problem. Am I "food poor" because I don't eat 10,000 calories a day,
The term "Energy Poverty" relates to the proportion of income that a household spends on energy and not how much they consume, which might actually be very little. Energy prices here are about 2x those of the US and went up 15% annually for the last 2-3 years and at the same times incomes have stayed the same.

No, people can't choose to reduce energy usage by 15% a year.

And anyway about 11% of that goes to pay rich people to get richer by having windmills on their land.
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