Similarly, in the US, on air bases, if you lived in dormitories instead of your own houses, the same thing happened. Your heat went on on a specified day, and off on a specified day, and that was that.
Now, it's going to happen in individual peeople's homes - at least in the UK, and do we doubt that it's going to happen here?
Story #3: UKT: Nothing "Smart" About Rationing Electricity
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, some of the greatest stories, finest reporting is coming out of the UK today, and I marvel at how on-point a lot of it is. Here's a piece that ran on Sunday in the UK Telegraph by James Delingpole entitled "There's Nothing 'Smart' About Rationing Electricity," and this generally is about the practice in Britain that we have in some places already here called "smart meters," which gives the government the power to wirelessly control your heat, your air-conditioning, your water flow, your electricity, all from the cozy central office. Think death panels in your home, and the ultimate method of nagging. Mr. Delingpole writes about the circumstance in the UK.
"Tonight on Channel 4 Niall Ferguson will be explaining why Western Civilisation is on its last legs. The reason for this is very simple: we no longer understand or value our civilisation; indeed many of us feel rather embarrassed about it. We have been taught to view all our great historical achievements through a filter of post-colonial guilt." Now, he's writing to the Brits, but isn't that how Obama looks at this country? Post-imperialist guilt. Too big. Too big a superpower, dominating the poor peoples and everybody else in the world, stealing their resources, stopping all over whoever gets on our way on our way to superpower status, and now we're all told that we need to apologize for the way we've been and we need to feel a collective guilt about it.
"[W]e have learned the weasel art of cultural relativism where, in their own special way, cultures that practise female circumcision and bury homosexuals under walls are just as vibrant, valid and meaningful as the one that gave us Michelangelo, penicillin and the splitting of the atom; we've been persuaded that elitism and authority are undesirable; we've bought heavily into the fashionable meme that mankind is a cancer on the earth and that the proper thing to do is abandon progress, destroy our economies, limit population growth and try to recapture an agrarian idyll which of course never existed...
"To show how desperate, let us consider the words of Steve Holliday, chief executive of the National Grid," that's their electrical system, "interviewed last week on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. 'The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030. We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it. It is going to be much smarter than that. We are going to change our own behaviour and consume it when it is available and available cheaply.' I have one simple question here: what on earth is this imbecile still doing in his job? Obviously, one might except this kind of inanity from Green MP Caroline Lucas.
"She is, after all, the leader of a party ideologically committed in its manifesto to raising taxes, destroying economic growth and restricting personal freedoms." That's also known as the Democrat Party in this country. "National Grid, on the other hand, is the organisation which distributes Britain's power supplies. Not just the power supplies of the kind of hairshirt loons who believe there must be 'limits to growth' and that the answer is therefore to deny our children an economic future, raise taxes and force us to use crappy, flickery yellow lightbulbs and get used to our rubbish being collected once a fortnight no matter how much we pay in council tax.
"But also the power supplies of the rest of us -- that is, most of us -- who just want to get on with living our lives, paying the rent, making the most of our short span on this earth, and enjoying our hot showers and baths as and when we choose rather than when some eco-fascist busybody tell us its permitted." This guy is railing against the smart meters in the UK which control where your thermostat's set, how much hot water you're gonna have and when it's going to be hot. The smart grid, it's coming here and they've already got it in several parts of Europe, the environmentalist wackos "who actively want to revive wartime-style rationing and who welcome shortages and inconvenience, because they believe this is the price we must pay for 'Saving The Planet.'"
So the point here is that these environmentalist wackos in the UK have moved forward with all of this guilt: "We're destroying the planet; we must stop it," and that means forced rationing on everybody. The government's in charge of it over there. Now, how many of you have heard of smart meters and you've maybe been sold on the concept, somebody wants to bring and put 'em in your house. "They'll save you a lot of trouble, save you a lot of money! Somebody from afar is gonna control when your thermostat lowers to cool your house or heat your house or wherever it is. You don't have to worry about it ever again." It's not gonna be under your control, though.
They're already offering smart meters in certain parts of the country with certain financial incentives, like, "We'll reduce your electric bill X-number of dollars per month per year in exchange for putting this thing in" and so forth. What you're doing is signing up for losing total control over your use of electricity and other forms of power within your own domicile -- and his point is: For the UK to go along with this, how much guilt must there be? How much must our people really now have been convinced to hate ourselves to throw away this kind of freedom? Just how much guilt do we have that they've forced on us that we think, in order to get back in the good graces of everybody, we have to punish ourselves this way.
There's a lot of that going around in our culture today.
On this "smart" meter stuff, I know a lot of smart meters are being installed in this country. In California and Texas, a lot of smart meters are being installed as we speak. People have no choice over the matter. The stimulus, the Porkulus bill allocated something like $4.4 billion for smart meter technology, including four million of the next generation smart meters. This is a story again from the UK, International Herald Tribune. It's the international version of the New York Times. February 10th, 2009, and the same articles goes on to say what a big stake Google has in smart meters. Google has a big stake in smart meters.
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