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She is a Roman Catholic and has used her religious identity in part to help build her national brand. In a 2019 speech to a rally in Rome, she said: "I am Giorgia. I’m a woman, I’m a mother, I’m Italian, I’m Christian.
So I can’t stand it when people do the “reeeee” thing either, but this one kind of bugs me.
$11.4 billion in savings per year for 332 million people averages to $34 per year.
Here is a typical electric water heater. Cost: $439. Here is one with a heat pump installed as described in the article. Cost: $1,909 - a difference in price of $1,470.
At $34 per year, this water heater would have to last 43 years before any cost savings from the efficiency gains would be realized. I don’t know if you know much about water heaters, but this won’t happen by a long shot.
Gas units fare similarly, with typical units verses high efficiency units’ price differential.
It’s hard to be a homeowner these days. This will make it harder. I can accept it in the name of efficiency gains and saving the planet and all that, but the whole “this will save consumers money,” bit is pure gaslighting. It’s not true. This will cost consumers quite a lot of money.
Claiming there's savings just isn't true in reality. If they came out and said it's to help reduce energy consumption to save the planet I'd be all in, and I'm still in for this, but it just makes it hard to fully support with the gaslighting as you aptly put.
Part of the problem is that most people who would need convincing of this will immediately turn away as soon as they hear “save energy” or “save the planet” as they see these efforts as nuicanses and a vie for control. The second you frame it as “what’s in it for you,” they immediately start to listen. Look at what happened with solar panels once they crossed the magic threshold of affordability and actually functioned as a cost saving method. A third of the houses in my neighborhood have them installed now. The only reason I don’t is because I’m currently paycheck to paycheck, and my local power company is also doing a killer job of sourcing solar and other renewables.
It would be nice if they occasionally spent time making and enforcing stuff like this for the 7 or 10 corporations that cause most of the climate change problem. Asking all the citizens to spend and extra $1000 when they replace their water heater is just limate change theater.
I think you maybe responded to the wrong person or didn’t respond to the OP. My post was about how to convince people to buy in, whereas yours seems to be focused on the big businesses and how they’re not being held to the same standard. Though, the overlap here is basically what I originally said: frame it as cost-savings for the businesses or something else in it for them and they’ll start doing it with or without regulation.
It is human decency to not mock faiths and their sacred writings, regardless of what you think the truth is. I do not condone or promote these actions, but be prepared to face the consequences if you are going to harm a big proportion of the world’s people anyhow.
Everything you say before the but doesn’t really matter. Fuck these people. There literally isn’t a book you could burn that would offend me in this way. Their magic book doesn’t entitle them to throw a hissy fit when people do something they don’t like. Full stop.
I’m all for respecting faiths if those faiths are respectful in return. Everyone is entitled to believe whatever they want; but if your beliefs are outright dangerous, don’t be surprised when you get backlash for it. Sadly Islam has no respect for anyone, not even it’s own followers. There is no place for Islam, Catholicism or any other extreme religion in modern society. Leave that shit in the middle ages.
I will mock any sky-daddyism whenever I feel like it. Oh and your buddy Moe was a pedo criminal who ordered prisoners of war tortured and his personal enemies murdered.
Your irrationality is not immune from criticism just because it is dear to you.
If your world view is based upon a conspiracy theory with little to no backing evidence, you are bound to face mockery.
When you use these theories to suppress the rights of others and act like a barbaric caveman, either conflict arises or you have an ideological dictatorship.
Religion is great at detaching you from reality and your fellow man. Calling it human decency to encourage both of those behaviors is absolutely awful and you should be deeply ashamed.
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