900 Villages families jolted by huge electric bills | Windsor Star

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vote .... Gawd NO!

Just think the prices they pay are till low when you look at the prices they could be paying for 'green' power sources.

Sympathy...gone.

They paid massive amounts to build nuclear all over Ontario but the day-to-day operating costs are pretty reasonable. This is a fairly flat province and, except for Niagara, we only have small hydro. If you can stand the huge, up-front capital commitment, nuclear is the way to go. It supplies half of our electricity in Ontario and has done so for coming up two generations. Yu could put a windmill in every back yard and still not cover the demand, here.

Or, maybe they couldn't afford the upgrades and after seeing the size of their bills it almost seems like payback for refusing the benevolence offered by the state.

It's just like BC where they're raising BC Hydro rates by a huge amount and you get people like the dumb fuck Minister of Energy, Mines and Core Reviews saying people should convert to natural gas to save money like it's some cost effective and easy thing to do.

If I wanted to put natural gas heat in my home, I'd have to pay for the gas company to bring it onto my property, after they brought it onto my street then, I'd have to pay to hook it up, then I'd have to find someplace to put the furnace or heat pump, hire an hvac company to install said heat pump or furnace then have them run duct work through a home not designed for duct work, hire carpenters to build the bulkheads around the duct work that the HVAC company installed and so on. Not exactly cheap or easy like the Minister is making it out to be.

I had a nephew put a heat a heat pump in his home, no furnace mind you, just the heat pump and permanent ductwork. It still cost him around 40K after a deal had been worked out to switch his companies mechanical work for the HVAC companies labour and parts at cost.

I got a quote a couple of years ago for one of those systems that you put outside which has a unit on the wall hooked to the outside unit by flex hoses and to do one part of one level of my home would have cost me $14,000 so, I can see these people not buying into borrowing thousands upon thousands of dollars to put in new heating systems when the Gov't is the ones who encouraged the builders to use nothing but baseboard heat with the promises of cheap electricity for ever.

People shouldn't have to mortgage their future to fix past governments decisions and the Gov't should be willing to work with these people to find a solution that won't put them in the poor house.