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On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 08:45:19 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>"U.S. Janet B." wrote in message
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>On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 18:02:51 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>you can always go off the grid and then they have no power over you --
>go solar. Or get gas powered appliances. By accepting modern
>amenities like roads, water, electricity you are accepting the rules
>of civilization. By tempering the amount of power some individuals
>get during a stressed period, the utilities make sure enough power is
>available for necessary functions like hospitals, police, the water
>plant, individuals at home that must have electricity to live etc. The
>utility is just spreading the impact among users. If this happens
>often and you are worried about your electrical devices you should
>hook all of them up to a either a whole house surge protector or
>individual surge protectors. Looking at Google I see that whole house
>surger protectors run from about $100 to $200 US if you buy and
>install yourself. My utility does have a program where you as a
>homeowner can volunteer to have less power delivered to your house
>during periods when you know you will not be there. They offer
>additional savings for participating in this program.
>I guess the thing is that if we as citizens of this planet want to
>continue to have babies, drive cars, use refrigerators etc. we need to
>anticipate that we will have to all be part of sharing resources.
>Sorry about the sermon. . .it wasn't aimed at you in particular.
>Janet US
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>If the situation was that desperate here they would make it compulsory.

There was a funny situation here - a youngish couple, he was from the
UK and she was German. They bought a few acres on the eastern shore
and decided to build. What they didn't realise was that the power did
not go to their land, nor did the power company intend to put it in
for two people.

No worries, they built a lovely house, all the usual things, earth
mounded up at the back, facing south, some solar, some wind power and
so on. Fairly recently the power company decided they would now run
the power down to them as they were putting it in along the major
road, he told me it was the most delicious letter he ever had to
write! They have installed a generator in the last few years but very
rarely use it.

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