The View From Your Electric Bill: 17 cents/kWh in São Paulo
The Bills keep on coming. In Brazil, before tax, you pay the equivalent of 17 US cents per kWh.
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Using diesel as a cleaning supply
Today, we have a guest post on the electricity crisis from the man they call Setty. Friday in Caracas I ordered a coffee at a cheap little restaurant,...
The Electric Crisis is an Overconsumption Crisis
Here’s an even clearer chart showing Venezuela’s relative electric profligacy, courtesy of Google’s latest fun toy, the Public Data tool. http://www.google.com/publicdata/embed?ds=wb-wdi&ctype=l&met_y=eg_use_elec_kh_pc&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:CHL:COL:VEN:BRA:ARG:MEX:ECU:PER&tstart=31536000000&tunit=Y&tlen=35&hl=en_US&dl=en In this data series (drawn from the...
Artificially Low Prices = Too Much Consumption
It’s really too obvious to need much elaboration, and yet it’s almost never said out loud. The Venezuelan electric crisis is caused not just by too little supply...
The View From Your Electric Bill: 19.2 cents/kWh in Dublin
In Ireland, they pay the kinds of electric rates that’ll drive you to the bottle!
The View From Your Electric Bill: 5.8 cents/kWh in Quito
The electric bills keep coming in! (Read below for details.)
The View From Your Electric Bill: 1.7 cents/kWh in Caracas
Today, I’m continuing on with The View From Your Electric Bill, a series of posts designed to float the ultimate political heresy: maybe, just maybe, idiotically low electricity prices...
The View From Your Electric Bill: 16 cents/kWh in Norway
Today, I’m continuing on with The View From Your Electric Bill, a series of posts designed to float the ultimate political heresy: maybe, just maybe, idiotically low electricity prices...
The View From Your Electric Bill: 1 cent/kWh in Buenos Aires
Today, I’m continuing on with The View From Your Electric Bill, a series of posts designed to float the ultimate political heresy: maybe, just maybe, idiotically low electricity prices...
The View From Your Electric Bill: 14.8 cents/kWh in Wisconsin
Today, I’m continuing on with The View From Your Electric Bill, a series of posts designed to float the ultimate political heresy: maybe, just maybe, idiotically low electricity prices...
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