To be dependent on your government.
Robin Speronis lives off the grid in Florida, completely independent of the city’s water and electric system. A few weeks ago, officials ruled her off-grid home illegal. Officials cited the International Property Maintenance Code, which mandates that homes be connected to an electricity grid and a running water source.
That’s like saying our dependency on corporations isn’t even a choice. The choice to live without most utilities has been ongoing for Robin, the self-sufficient woman has lived for more than a year and a half using solar energy, a propane camping stove and rain water.
In the end, she was found not guilty of not having a proper sewer or electrical system; but was guilty of not being hooked up to an approved water supply.
Speronis is still being hassled by the municipality of Cape Coral for not having a connection to city water, nor proper sewage. That. regardless of the fact the city capped her sewers themselves.
I was pretty sure this was posted here last year when this story came out, but I looked and couldn’t find it and figured now was as good a time as any.
So government and it corporatist cronies are different from a shakedown racket how, exactly?
Magic pixie dust of government, I guess.
(I’m trying to remember where I heard that term. I don’t think I came up with it myself. I think I saw it either on Joe Huffman’s blog, or Kevin Baker’s, or here)
But, but, but I thought that the Greenies wanted everyone to use solar power and be “off the grid.” I wonder if the cognitive dissonance is painful.