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