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Variable speed drives?

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Patience fellow duffers, once Electric Cars become mainstream, your Smart meter will come into its own, Tax Tax Tax.

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That's a good one spitfire, I hadn't even thought of that connection to the installation of 'Smart' meters (excuse the pun).

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Pure Logic Baz, little chip in the car connects with the meter = different tariff.

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Yes. I did say 'loosely speaking'.

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For those on a limited income, the Meter will help you decide if its the commute to work tomorrow, or, the Tele on tonight.

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Yes, that's the problem with technology, it can be used in all kinds of ways, both good and bad.
Bad that is for us in this example as being the consumer / tax payer.

Things have definitely come a long way since the Sinclair ZX80 in 1980. Who would have thought that in 40 years technology would be as advanced and used as it is today?

https://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html

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its just balancing the books, all the 80 pence's not being collected in litres in fuel duty will have to come from somewhere, there is no such thing as a free meal. Joking apart, the tariffs would really need separating because, the running of a vehicle could not be allowed compromise the budget for paying of a domestic energy bill.

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Or Laplace Transforms............