[Impala64ssa]

As the price of electricity goes up, it will motivate people to use less of it.
My parents and many others fell for that scam during the 1973 oil embargo. Our local utility co., Orange and Rockland hired a PR flack, Linda Winikow, one of the 1st women to serve in the NY Senate who encouraged everyone to save on electric and gas usage. So we did, the thermostat in the house was turned down, my mom warned us in no uncertain terms to turn off the lights and TV when leaving a room, etc. Sure enough their next utility bill was lower. Before long the CEO of O&R announced that, guess what, the rates are going up because revenue dropped due to people CONSERVING ENERGY LIKE THEY WERE TOLD TO DO! A side note, the local feminists at one time were grooming Winikow to become the first female Gov of NY. Unfortunately for them she got in a nasty trick bag involving embezzlement and she ...silently...faded...away and lived out her yrs in obscurity in FL.

[Oatka]

My parents and many others fell for that scam during the 1973 oil embargo. Our local utility co., Orange and Rockland hired a PR flack, Linda Winikow, one of the 1st women to serve in the NY Senate who encouraged everyone to save on electric and gas usage.
So we did, the thermostat in the house was turned down, my mom warned us in no uncertain terms to turn off the lights and TV when leaving a room, etc.
Sure enough their next utility bill was lower. Before long the CEO of O&R announced that, guess what, the rates are going up because revenue dropped due to people CONSERVING ENERGY LIKE THEY WERE TOLD TO DO!

California in the '70s pulled that same trick with a "water shortage", exhorting people flushing toilets "If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down." People did so, with the same results.