“”Heat wave in Portland. TV said cut back on your electrical use””
Very soon Portland will copy L.A. and ask all EV drivers to plug their EV BACK into the electric grid. Their next move will be to declare all the electricity the ‘people’s power’ and only allow distribution ‘according to one’s need.’ That ‘need’ amount will be determined by one’s social credit score. Those of us who have never used FaceBut InstaCrap, etc will have to sign up and express Big Brother’s opinion.
This is literally one of the reasons I have solar and an EV. I see one of 3 futures for the Dims and energy. 1) They'll just keep making it more and more expensive to price away most people's use of it. 2) Or they'll do #1 but with price rebates or such if we have a good social credit score / mark of the beast. 3) Or they won't use pricing to control us but have a blanket prohibition against energy to all who don't bow to their gods.
By making most of our own energy my wife and I avoid the Dims' ability to control us at least in that manner. As of now my solar system produces 81% of all our power for our all-electric home, including charging our EV. (By my estimate about 22K miles per year are charged at home.) It'd be infeasible at this point to make us 100% energy independent (law of diminishing returns). So for now I'm satisfied that it's doing its job of protecting our retirement investments from most of the stupid energy inflation. But I've already figured out what I'd have to do if I have to get to 100% energy independence (except for road trip driving, in which I case I'd then just like now have to pay for either power or gas depending on which car we take).
Don't get me wrong. I like my ICE pickup too. It brings a lot to the table that my EV doesn't. But the fact of the matter is I can't drill and refine my own oil to fuel my ICE pickup. However, I can produce my own power for my home and my EV (at least for local driving and the first 240 miles of a trip).