Could you also write one to Good Energy. They are dragging their heels on this. They also insist on sending out half a tree of promotional guff with every bill.

Here's an email I've just written to Wiltshire County Council:

Hi, I've just received my council tax bill, and I wondered if there was a paperless billing option? Eg. the bill could be emailed out, and the accompanying booklet could be online.

as ever, I'll let you know what they …

I came home to find my polling card for the referendum on changing the voting system for parliament from first-past-the-post to the alternative vote. My preferred voting system is range voting. As I wrote on Polifesto, the problem with AV:

...occurs when you have two popular candidates with extreme opposite …

Glad you enjoyed it!

I rate Stross very highly as his what-if's and settings are wonderfully creative, while his writing style is often darkly humorous - a fun approach in a genre that often tends towards overly serious tones.

If you liked Wireless you should definitely check out some of his …

I'm on the Claverton Energy Group mailing list. Here's a (slightly amended) post from me on the safety of nuclear power:

It seems to me that the problem is the cap on the liability of nuclear power companies if there's an accident. That is, if an accident occurs and its …

Palimpsest is the last story of Wireless, a collection of short stories by Charles Stross. Janos recommended Stross. In fact he did more than that, he presented me with a plastic bag filled with sci-fi books, one of which was Wireless!

But back to Palimpsest. It's a novella, and really …

> Taxing things to change behavior, surely that
> is unfair on the poor?

All the revenue would be divided up equally amongst the population. See http://www.polifesto.com/policies/12/

Hehe!

I did laugh out loud as predicted. I feel that particular dog has had it's day!

Your absolutely right, price goes up, people buy less. But its not linear, and its bounded. If I were an economist I could explain better, I think its called elasticity of supply. Actually with energy its probably in-elasticity of supply.

But, as I say, to some extent I agree with …