Or Do They ?
This past weekend, while sitting under a sun umbrella trying to escape the oppressive heat, a family member casually mentioned to me that our Premier – the renowned Dalton McGuinty, deserved a lot of credit. “How so” I naively asked?
‘Well we have gone through multiple plus 30 degree days recently and not one blackout nor even a brownout has occurred.’
“And why do you think that is” I responded?
‘It is due to Green Energy of course’.
And with that statement, he and I were in total agreement – as we usually are on most of life’s great issues.
But as you can imagine dear reader, in this particular instance, we agree for diametrically opposed reasons.
He, like millions of others, has bought into McGuinty’s claim that Green Power has been one of his signature successes when, in actual fact, it has been an outright failure.
But that said, we have indeed been spared from power disruptions during this ongoing extended heat wave and it is indeed due in great measure to Green Energy.
The money wasted on Green Energy and the meagre amount of energy it has produced – about 2% of the total - has resulted in skyrocketing energy costs. Businesses have flown out of our Province in search of cheaper power jurisdictions. For instance, with all the charges imposed on our monthly power bills, we are paying over .20 cents per k.w.h. whereas, just across the border in Quebec and New York, users pay about 6 cents per. Triple the cost and rising.
Individuals too have changed their power usage habits – the poor – those on fixed incomes etc., are using less since it often comes down for them to using power or having enough to eat.
As a result – power usage is way down in Ontario and we have Green Energy to thank for it. Not because it has been such a spectacular success, rather, because it has been such a spectacular failure.
Today, we are using 15% less power than we did seven years ago despite the fact that our population has increased over that same period by about the same per centage.
Not all of the problem can be laid at the feet of Green Energy but a great deal of it can. Seven years ago we were heading into Recession – so usage of power was bound to go down. But what is surprising is that it has not recovered to those pre 2005 / 06 year levels.
If the Province had focused on supplying cheaper energy sources rather than spending .80 cents per kwh for Solar Power – think how much cheaper our power would be for us all – businesses and individuals alike.
So there you have it – Green Energy has kept our electricity usage down – has avoided the dreaded Blackout and we have dear Mr. McGuinty to thank for it.
The guy’s a genius.
As I see it ..
‘K.D. Galagher’
