Victoria has a plan for the state to electrify, but how do we make the transition fair and equitable for everyone? New research suggests a way forward.

Was going to post this to !aus but I’ll keep it in here for now. I don’t want to dirty up elsewhere with the excessive posting.

That’s because part of a gas bill includes the fixed cost of running gas infrastructure - so as progressively fewer people use gas, the remaining users pay more.

We studied households in Victoria: the state with the highest prevalence of residential gas use in Australia and where plans for an economy-wide transition away from fossil gas are underway.

Just one in ten surveyed households had replaced gas appliances with electric ones within the past five years.

Many respondents were unsure about the relative benefits of electric versus gas appliances when it came to cost, reliability, safety and the environment.

  • Treevan 🇦🇺OPMEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    I gotta stop the either or. Now I can’t tell what the upvotes mean.

    Maybe in the future I will ask questions via comment eg. “Downvote this comment if you want to see less of this content”.

    Unfortunately, downvotes aren’t helping an algorithm at all. I need verbal abuse to find out what readers want.

    • maniacalmanicmaniaEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t try to guess what the downvotes mean. Until someone pipes up just keep posting.

      • Treevan 🇦🇺OPMEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m on the fence with energy related stuff, could it be better in politics? I’m reasonably selective and leave a lot of content for others to pick up. Energy is almost political these days.

        Perhaps I’ll take environmental damage from mines, air pollution, things like that.

        I’ll wind up the regular content soon anyway. Cheers for the comment.

        • ephemeral_gibbonEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          Energy is definitely of environmental concern, it’s very close to the most important thing because of co2 emissions

          • Treevan 🇦🇺OPMEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Definitely. But it’s also political and it’s not good having one community hoover up everything. If they are crossposted to every slightly relevant community on the local instance, it can damage the local feed (depending on how you view it, eg. what app).

            If I’m posting, I’ll try and set a line that I don’t cross based on how much of the environment it impacts (even though technically it impacts everything). Reneweconomy.com.au has lots of content that I don’t post, for one example.