Victoria has a plan for the state to electrify, but how do we make the transition fair and equitable for everyone? New research suggests a way forward.

Was going to post this to !aus but I’ll keep it in here for now. I don’t want to dirty up elsewhere with the excessive posting.

That’s because part of a gas bill includes the fixed cost of running gas infrastructure - so as progressively fewer people use gas, the remaining users pay more.

We studied households in Victoria: the state with the highest prevalence of residential gas use in Australia and where plans for an economy-wide transition away from fossil gas are underway.

Just one in ten surveyed households had replaced gas appliances with electric ones within the past five years.

Many respondents were unsure about the relative benefits of electric versus gas appliances when it came to cost, reliability, safety and the environment.

  • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Downvoters:

    Does this mean you want me to remove energy-related stuff from the sidebar and community and leave it for someone else to post?

    Or are you shills for big gas and you don’t like the content?

    Please tell me. Tough one to ascertain if you don’t say anything.

    • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      I gotta stop the either or. Now I can’t tell what the upvotes mean.

      Maybe in the future I will ask questions via comment eg. “Downvote this comment if you want to see less of this content”.

      Unfortunately, downvotes aren’t helping an algorithm at all. I need verbal abuse to find out what readers want.

        • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I’m on the fence with energy related stuff, could it be better in politics? I’m reasonably selective and leave a lot of content for others to pick up. Energy is almost political these days.

          Perhaps I’ll take environmental damage from mines, air pollution, things like that.

          I’ll wind up the regular content soon anyway. Cheers for the comment.

            • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Definitely. But it’s also political and it’s not good having one community hoover up everything. If they are crossposted to every slightly relevant community on the local instance, it can damage the local feed (depending on how you view it, eg. what app).

              If I’m posting, I’ll try and set a line that I don’t cross based on how much of the environment it impacts (even though technically it impacts everything). Reneweconomy.com.au has lots of content that I don’t post, for one example.

    • Railison@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Could be Voyager users going back to the previous screen by swiping…

      Though I’m starting the process of transitioning. It’s a lot to think about and a multitude of tradies to live up before making the switch.

      • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Voyager just released customisable gestures now that you mention it. I’m trialling with it off for a while. I do accidentally upvote when using the back gesture on Android at times.

  • Urbaer@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    As a renter of there were incentives for landlords to make the transition I’d be asking them to switch us over.

    But as there’s not I can’t really see that there’s much benefit to them in doing so

    • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve got gas. I just bought a portable induction and use that instead. Covers 75% of the usage usually. That’s 75% less pollution in the house.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m trying to de-gasify my home. I get charged $20 a month on the gas bill whether I use gas that month or not. Such a waste of money.