[lit-ideas] Re: Energy efficiency
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:50:07 -0800
Utility companies hate energy efficiency. It reduces their income. If
enough people cut back on their use of energy, the companies will up
your rates so that their income doesn't drop. Either way, the consumer
loses. It's the American way!
This is a thoughtless remark. My son works for Pacificorp, a very large
energy company with headquarters in Portland. His job consists entirely
in showing Pacificorp customers—both commercial and residential, but
mostly commercial—how to conserve, and to reduce their energy use. He
travels frequently to nearby states served by the company. Why does
Pacificorp want its customers to conserve? Capitalism with a twist: if a
company can't afford to pay the cost of the energy needed to keep on
doing what it's doing (let alone expand) it will reduce its operations,
outsource them, or go out of business. Pacificorp wants its customers to
stay in business and to buy their energy from them.
Robert Paul,
typing by candlelight
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