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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
ETA: sure, the number of people who will meet the criteria you outlined is probably pretty limited, but it seems that there's a better way of dealing with the whole issue rather than just saying certain folks are exempt from getting the utilities cut off.
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It's not
that limited, if you think about it. The elderly, ill, people with kids, and those who
need power to treat chronic illnesses (that could be as basic as asthma or diabetes, if a case is severe enough) are the most vulnerable. That pretty much eliminates everyone except for able-bodied young and middle-aged people without children in the home. Those people should be able to pay their own power bill.
It seems to work well here in NYC, since people don't freeze to death all winter long.
As far as "the pioneer days" and people not having electricity then, we also live in areas of the world that weren't exactly habitable before the advent of electricity and the automobile. Also, one of the interesting advances of science is medications sometimes have to be refrigerated. We can't pretend that we can do without the things people did 150 years ago because times have changed.
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