Your electricity quota for the month is used up. You’re switched off.
This way there’ll be no mass, “rolling blackouts” with concurrent mass protests.
California’s Greyout Davis would still be in office.
Old people will die of hypothermia.
You won't be switched off. You'll pay 10x for the electricity you use. If you use too much more, you'll pay 100x. And so on.
Mark my words.