For an interdisciplinary research lead in France about scenarios of energy transition, low middle classes families living in suburban areas were interviewed: some already owned a house while others were in the process of becoming home-owner. In this paper we will discuss the everyday "bricolage" in order to keep the bill down, the role of public policies and the immovibility of cars.
Paper long abstract:
For an interdisciplinary research lead in France about scenarios of energy transition, low middle classes families living in suburban areas near Lyon in France, were interviewed: some already owned a house while other were in the process of becoming home-owner. The aim was for the first type of population to observe how people dealt with energy transition while they were already settled and seemed to have little choice as too where they could work and where they could move in a context prices housing prices getting down in suburban areas but still rising downtown, why for the people in the process of becoming home-owner, we wanted to observe which kind of choice where made related to energy and what people where ready to give up if they couldn't buy the type of good they were looking for because of housing prices.
In this paper we will discuss the everyday "bricolage" in order to keep energy bills down when oil prices are rising, the role of public policies and the immovability of cars, whose use is hardly discussed.