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Comment Re:Power is fungible, like money (Score 1) 275

Free pass to what?

All the people who are contributing to the problem that you are falsely allocating their portion of the pollution onto someone much cleaner instead.

taking responsibility, or in your case denying it, has no effect on climate change.

If you're denying you are the major cause of the problem. Then of course you aren't going to try to solve that problem are you.
It's that other guys fault. The one driving a less polluting car and using a twentieth the electricity that you do.

Comment Re:Power is fungible, like money (Score 1) 275

Of course you're again giving a free pass to the person using 20x as much electricity. Who is now also driving 2 ICE cars.

But that isn't really where this discussion started.

No it isn't.
All the people contributing to a problem are responsible for the problem in proportion to their contributions.
As it always has been.

Comment Re:Power is fungible, like money (Score 1) 275

Switching from burning oil in your car to electricity is a saving though.

Those other 5 people using 20 times the electricity, are also still driving oil powered cars.

According to you though, the much dirtier people are grandfathered in as high polluting. So it's ok. And only if cleaner people use the electricity the dirty people feel entitled to, is it a problem.

Comment Re:Power is fungible, like money (Score 1) 275

You on the other hand are saying the people using 95% are at no fault

No, I haven't. I have repeatedly said I don't care. The fact is if you didn't charge your car, 100% of the emissions from burning the coal to charge it wouldn't exist. Not 5% nor 95%, 100% wouldn't exist.

You just did it again. Right there.

If one of those other 5 people weren't using 20 times as much as that one person. Same result.
Just one of them could have cut back 5% of their use. Or all of them cut just 1%. Same result. No pollution. But they all chose not to. So they, like you, could smugly sit there and complain about the person 20x cleaner than them.

It's only because of all 6 people that the coal station was used. It's absurd that you keep going on about this.

But you think you're entitled, along with the rest to use that electricity. For some reason you haven't really explained yet.

Comment Re:Power is fungible, like money (Score 1) 275

You are basically ignoring the consequences of your

That's completely false (although it's exactly what you are doing)

I'm saying the person using 5% is 5% responsible and the people using 95% are 95% responsible.
It's quite a simple concept.

You on the other hand are saying the people using 95% are at no fault because they were using it first. And the person using 5% is 100% responsible. Maybe because he was slow to wake up that day or busy at work and only just got home. Or whatever other apologist nonsense you can think up to blame the lowest using person and not the heaviest users.

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