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People get all squeamish when you say the word 'rationing', but rationing
This. Imagine Americans being told that they’re only allowed to watch Netflix and browse the internet for 4-6 hours per day. They’d rather burn the whole planet down than to have their treats taken away.
They aren't called Treatlers for nothing.
Under rationing in the UK, most people ate better
Edit, because I just realized this is kinda ambiguous — working class people under the rationing system ate more
Those aren't hugely energy intensive activities though. You'd save more energy by banning dryers and regulating air conditioning/heating down to normal levels for non-US countries. You could probably bring American energy consumption down to near the average just by limiting the size of cars.
Yeah I'm not a FALC bro at all, but we can actually have nice things — there's so much low hanging fruit to go after before normal people even begin to feel the pinch.