A new law just passed recently that taxes you based on the amount of electrical power used and gives you a rebate based on the amount you produce. This is great. However, lights are included in the bill. While that is realistic, for the sake of nice buildings, could they be excluded? The bill discourages using them when lights provide no benefit for the user other then a nice looking world object to brighten up the world.
#Lights exception?
misty bluff
hallow fox
I think we should have a full explanation of the new bill, because what is the purpose of an ordinary citizen who barely needs their own power paying double taxes because of industrial power needs? It sounds more to me like the industrial professions should be getting taxed harder or the outliers in power usage should be the ones paying the extra taxes, not a cook just trying to power a fridge/lights.
silver girder
This is not a tax, its a bill. You are charged based on the energy you consume. Thus, an oil driller with 60 pumpjacks will be paying over 100 times more than a citizen with just a single light. Powering a lamp for a day will cost roughly 1 euro, so it will not create a burden for those who are not consuming large amounts.
If you would like to generate your own power through a solar panel or wind turbine, you can get a rebate that offsets the bill and you would no longer have to pay.
However, its going to be cheaper to just pay the bill for the vast majority of people as the Federation isn't even charging enough to recover energy costs
misty bluff
Lights placed off claim on the road to create an aesthetic appeal are put on the person who placed them
paying for it on my own claim is fine but i feel trying to beautifying the roads so we arnt living in a simple ugly world should be an exception. creates a place for lights to be used without disincentivizing them thru a bill