Everyone else was busy, and Hong Tao just felt a little like giving orders, but he was interrupted by another thing. To say that this matter is not a big deal, it is not his turn to deal with it personally.

However, the blind aunt who succeeded Xiaoniao as the director of the community neighborhood committee made a mistake and made a small thing so big that she couldn't do anything about it.

Since the end of '08, a new term has appeared in the capital, and coal has been converted into electricity! As the name suggests, it is to change the place where coal was burned in the past to electricity.

At present, most of the buildings in the capital are collecting heat and steam, and coal has long been used for heating and cooking. But in the bungalow area of the old city, all kinds of stoves fueled by honeycomb coal are still the main cooking and heating of each household.

The government will provide a kind of regenerative electric heating, of course, not for free, it needs to be purchased by residents, but there will be some concessions in price.

In addition, there is the price of electricity, and if the original price is followed, the residents will not be able to afford this electric heating. What should I do? As the saying goes, there are always more ways than difficulties.

Every day, from blackjack in the evening to six in the morning, the price of electricity during this time will be very low. At this time, the regenerative electric heater starts to store heat with electricity, and only dissipates heat during the day without electricity.

In this way, most families can afford it, and a small number of poor households will be given heating subsidies by the government. However, even if there is a preferential electricity price, the cost of electric heating for residents is still higher than that of coal, which is no problem, and the right should be to contribute to air quality.

Speaking of air quality, I don't know when there was such a thing as haze, and then all kinds of environmental protection and low-carbon life trends have sprung up.

For example, the restriction of odd and even numbers for motor vehicles, the installation of various exhaust gas purification equipment, the conversion of coal-fired boilers to gas in all units in the capital, and the closure or relocation of factories and mines that may cause pollution, coal-to-electricity conversion is also one of them.

But after tossing for a long time, the effect is as bad as curbing housing prices. Housing prices are getting higher and higher, and the smog is getting worse year by year.

Of course, the policy has to be more and more novel year by year, and even those who open restaurants have to spend tens of thousands of yuan to buy a set of fume purification devices, otherwise they will not be granted a license. The air quality of a huge city is the fault of chefs and small business owners.

Whether these two professions are so sinful and extremely unclear is not clear, some people are under the banner of environmental protection and haze control, and they are forced to buy and sell, and their purses are full, and then go to Hainan Island or abroad, find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers and sweet smells in the air, and buy a big mansion is true.

As a native of Beijing, Hong Tao watched the city's climate change day by day. When he was a child, every winter would bring Northwest scenery of various intensities.

Not only did it come by itself, but it also called its friends, and it roared with the sand and dust of the north, and the sky was blown a dull yellow. When people want to go out, they must not only dress thickly, but also keep their mouths and noses open, otherwise they will get a mouthful of sand.

At that time, women were most conspicuous, and they would wrap their heads tightly with something called a scarf, which could not only see the road, but also protect against wind and sand, and also used as a kind of clothing.

Red, yellow, green, and colorful, in winter, there will be various colors on the street, which is also a sight.

But back then, there was only wind and sand and no haze, and even if there were, it couldn't withstand the blowing of five or six northwest winds every three or five times, and it had already been blown to the Bohai Bay.

Hong Tao didn't pay attention to when the smog thing came, but he had a vague impression that it seemed that the bad guy was not bringing coal-burning stoves or factory chimneys, but more and more cars on the street.

Since the capital began to be seriously congested from time to time, the blue sky that was common in winter was always very shy, and he never showed up for most of the night without strong winds.

Gale is also hateful, and as the city gets bigger and the global climate gets warmer and warmer, the number of visits to the capital is getting less and less every year. Even if he came, he was in a hurry, and he didn't want to stay longer.

More and more car exhaust, less and less wind, coupled with the expansion of the city like a pancake in a circle, the exhaust gas accumulates faster and faster, and dissipates more and more slowly, which is probably the real cause of smog.

This conclusion was only summed up by Hong Tao himself, and the experts would certainly not agree. They will come up with all kinds of data, through a variety of media, and persistently tell everyone: smog is inevitable, and if you want to cure it, you have to spend money to buy equipment.

As for how those data came from, don't ask, let alone get to the bottom of it. Experts say that if you have it, you have to have it, and if you don't, you have to have it!

However, one thing is certain, for most of the month before and after the Spring Festival every year, there is no traffic jam on the streets of the capital. More than 90 percent of the vehicles of various units, ministries, commissions, and organs have stopped, and fewer private cars have come out, and then the sky blue color in the capital has increased.

To say that factories and mines have stopped working, this reason is also valid. But the common people can't all sew their mouths shut, don't eat, drink, and don't keep warm.

On the contrary, during the festival, the time spent by families to cook and fry and burn in the stove must be several times higher than usual, and the restaurant cooks must be much busier than usual.

It can be seen that smog seems to have nothing to do with people's living habits and cooks' cooking methods, but is closely related to too many motor vehicles.

Hong Tao is not the only one who has this idea, many old neighbors also feel that electricity is more expensive, and they can only heat and not cook, which is very resistant. Moreover, each household has installed earth heaters at their own expense, and suddenly says that they will tear it all down, and people who are used to living a budget-conscious life will be very reluctant.

Especially the middle-aged and elderly, they have been frugal for most of their lives, and every item can be repaired, and they can make do with it, and a good stove and heating have directly become scrap metal, which is particularly distressing.

If this matter can be moved forward slowly and give everyone a choice, the effect will be much better. Compared with middle-aged and elderly people, young people are more receptive to new things and more willing to spend money. Electric heating is not without benefits at all, it is cleaner and more in line with the life of young people.

Let them use it first, and what advantages and disadvantages will be slowly reflected, and good things will always shine. By the way, some coal fees will be levied to equalize or even exceed the cost of electricity and coal, so that people can gradually adopt cleaner energy.

As soon as the number of coal burners decreased, the number of factories making stoves and honeycomb coal decreased, and the price naturally increased when the output decreased. When coal is more expensive than electricity, most people will naturally choose electric heating.

Doing so will not only reduce government subsidies, but will also make people feel more comfortable, because there is a choice, not a coercion.

But why are many things around us mandatory one-size-fits-all? Two words, lazy government! Two more words, interests!

One-size-fits-all is simpler and crusadier than marketization, and many officials spend their whole lives on promotions and fortunes. Human energy is limited, and even if Einstein comes, he cannot be a politician and an economist at the same time, and at the same time a part-time scientist.

Therefore, officials do not know anything about the economy and the people's livelihood, and they are even more unwilling to take any risks for the sake of the people.

As for whether the people are happy or not, uncomfortable or not, who cares. If you don't like it, what can you do? This black gauze hat is not given by the people, so why should you be satisfied?

In addition to lazy government, it is profit. There are more than 100,000 households in the capital, and there are still more than 100,000 households that need to switch from coal to electricity.

Electric heaters are not like earth heaters, a stove can carry several sets of radiators, and it costs a few pieces of honeycomb coal at most to have more rooms.

Each electric heater has a heating area limit, a large room to install a large power, a small room to install a small power, anyway, you have to install a few rooms in your house, except for the bathroom.

In this way, each family has to buy at least two or three units. Hundreds of thousands of electric heaters, the purchase price of two or three thousand yuan each, roughly calculated is a large order of more than one billion.

This procurement contract is a big pie no matter who it falls on, but if this matter is pushed to the market, it is not up to the leaders to control who can get the money. Let you be the leader, how to choose is not clear at a glance?