Re:Estonia plans to become a free public transport nation
by isostatic on Saturday May 19, 2018 @01:05PM
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Currently you can spend a little time and make savings, and that's great. You don't like the customer service, you can vote with your wallet. You prefer to pay a premium for a fixed price for the next 2 years rather than gamble on the energy market, that's fine. You want money to be funneled to renewables, even if the price per unit is more expensive, that's fine.
So .. how exactly do the savings come about? The electricity comes from the same power stations. You're not buying it on the spot market. Literally the only thing the power companies do is billing. The only way they make a profit is through confusing pricing and market inertia.
As someone else said, spending ages getting cheap tickets is only free if your time is worthless.