[Tell It Right]

I believe you and I are saying the same thing, while each of us is making a case for the difference between being totally off-grid (at least as far as energy goes) or being about 80% energy self-reliant.

And as a reminder, my "only" 80% energy self-reliance includes our driving (charging the EV for 1,300 miles of local driving per month with homemade power). Most people who talk about being off-grid solar still buy gas for all of their local driving, even if it's a lot less than 1,300 miles per month.

To your point, if our political class puts us in a mark-of-the-beast style situation for energy I could go 100% with a change in lifestyle (i.e. closing off the downstairs of the house, getting in the hot tub only on good solar days, less joy riding in the EV and less getting my mother out of the nursing home for 100-mile round trips visiting family and such, just getting out for necessities, etc.).

[Openurmind]

“To your point, if our political class puts us in a mark-of-the-beast style situation for energy I could go 100% with a change in lifestyle (i.e. closing off the downstairs of the house, getting in the hot tub only on good solar days, less joy riding in the EV and less getting my mother out of the nursing home for 100-mile round trips visiting family and such, just getting out for necessities, etc.).”

Unfortunately this is what will happen and what will be required. You will get by then as long as you are willing to actually reduce demand when the time calls for it.