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What's worse, they make you pay for all this nonsense through your rates.
The problem is that energy in general is still dirt cheap. Some may disagree, but you can tell it's too cheap, because we can afford to ship interchangeable products half way round the world, use cars with 1 person in them to make most (even short) trips, build stadium-sized shopping complexes (that are somehow never within walking distance) to replace the shop across the road, plan towns around cars rather than people, put houses on arable land, not harvest the collossal amounts of solar power baking Australia or, for that matter, create huge light domes that nobody needs even over small towns. Talking about the average person/community here of course. Sad really.
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