According to this report, power companies in Texas took control of people's "smart" thermostats during the latest power shortage:
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/texas-remote-controlled-smart-thermostats/
If these customers had read the contracts they signed with the power companies, they might have realized they already had given the companies permission to do just that.
But even fewer people realize that such central control of energy usage will be part and parcel of the Green Raw Deal and the Internet of Things. Apparently We the People have been irresponsible in our excessive use (and waste) of energy, so we have to be FORCED to cut back.
Scoff at the concept if you want, but I predict energy rationing will be an inevitable part of our future. And I suspect something similar will occur with our use of just about everything (water, food, lumber, autos, etc.) As Dr. Paul Ehrlich stated in his book The Population Bomb, "Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun." That really applies to ALL things physical.
We're all just "idiot children" who must be controlled, and if necessary eliminated should we become too great a threat to "the environment".
I bet you thought we'd be asked to vote on such matters before they were implemented. Well, obviously you thought wrong. Why don't you ask Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi about that?
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