Ontario's energy future must…

Ontario's energy future must include the following:

Phasing out nuclear power as it is too expensive with massive cost overruns and no way to deal with the deadly waste products inexpensively and safely.

Meeting our energy needs with sustainable green sources.

Mandating mileage efficiencies for gasoline cars that will dramatically reduce (no more small improvements in gas mileage please!!!) the amount of fuel required to operate AND reduce pollution and greenhouse gases.Capping top speed capability at 120km/hr would solve speeding issues to some extent and reduce the unnecessary waste of overly powerful, unnessarily wasteful engines engines. Personal transportation must be transformed in line with modern knowledge and best practices.Toys for boys that pollute and waste energy must become a thing of the past!

Mandating that all household appliances be highly efficient thereby removing wasteful appliances from the market. Economy of scale will bring the price of high efficiency down.

Ontario's energy future requires bringing our energy supply and costs into public transparency and accountability. This does not presently exist, and Ontario's lack of access to information marks its governments as secretive and unaccountable to the public.This tradition is antithetical to democracy.

Make public transit available and integrated and "push" its use through costs to unnecessary automotive transportation users who have excellent public transit options.

Require industrial users to also utilize high efficiency machines and even operate at surplus power times so that our energy infrastructure can bear high energy useage corporations.

All energy improvements must have publicly accountable and transparent benchmarks that will evidence how successful Ontario is in reducing pollution, fossil fuel use, increasing public transit use, access to information,etc.

The time for obfuscation and corporate placation to end. Ontario must adopt democracy as central to its energy policy platform. It's never been tried!

[Original Comment ID: 204956]