UK WWII-style energy rationing coming...

[link to www.theregister.co.uk]

Couple highlights from the article:

"What's interesting is how the normal parliamentary business was turned upside down."
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"The ration, or "personal carbon allowance" or PCA, is a measure of an individual's energy usage, either at home or traveling. Such usage is capped, and "further emissions rights will simply not be available," the Committee says. You may choose between a holiday, and turning on the heating. Points win prizes, however, and frugal individuals would be rewarded financially from the creation of an internal market."
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"In other words, the MPs want to end the debate about whether or not it's a desirable option, and start marketing it as the only option."
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"However prettily the MPs would like to dress up rationing, it's fundamentally a form of social coercion designed to make people less comfortable than they were before. Wartime rationing needs a war-sized scare, and with the climate stubbornly refusing to conform to the computer models (which predict catastrophe) that looks like an impossible prospect."
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Looks a bit like war is inevitable, doesn't it?