Re: theWatt Podcast 77

Thanks for the follow up. I am all for people investing in being self-sufficient, so we agree there.

On the higher prices of electricity in Boston and still higher uses, I wonder what the confounding factors are. After all, these are complicated systems. But you are right in that simply raising the prices a bit will not do everything. Even at twice the price, electricity is a bargain.

But California has kept its per capita electrical use steady for 3 decades now (hey Rod - without killing their standard of living - I sometimes worry that you are too doom and gloom about investments in efficiency) and my understanding is that at least part of that comes from the high price of electricity there. I believe they still pay more than the amount you pay in Boston (none of these relatively high prices seem to have killed the business climate) but they have a host of other good policies as well.