Since $mart Meter$ at Peak…

Since $mart Meter$ at Peak we are paying 353% more for electricity than our Base Rate of 0.051 cents a Kw. Take your calculator and multiply  0.051 X 353% = 0.18003 cents a Kw. We need a Consumers Bill of Rights. Those in government who wasted 2 Billion installing smart meters well knew what they were doing. Access to affordable energy is a basic need. On our first Winter Cycle on Smart Meters it cost 98% to cook breakfast and supper. The new exploitive Delivery Charge was trailing along at about 92% of the energy charge. Tell me why the delivery charge when the same wire has been linked to my home for 60 years. I have no intention of becoming a Raw Vegan Fooder and enjoy eating a warm meal at the traditional times.

Paying a Solar Farm 1,500% more for power produced is scandalous. Multiply 0.051 cents X 1500% = 0.765 cents + 0.051` = 0.816 cents Kilowatt which is the 0.80 cents being paid out. This is cronyism and Vote Buying of those that were financially capable of installing these solar units. Try and debate with them when they are drinking the Greed Kool Aid.

About natural gas the first pipeline through Northern Ontario in 1957 was paid for by taxpayers. The Northern Ontario Pipeline Crown Corporation paid for it, then leased it to TCP, Trans Canada Pipelines. We have countless communities in Northern Ontario without natural gas service, even in some where there is a TCP Compressor Station. TCP obviously took the golden goose and ran with it never looking back. Recently learning that Bruce & Kent County have NO natural gas is disgraceful some 60 years after Toronto was blessed with this low cost commodity. I would like to see the Lease Agreement to TCP and the Charters signed with Union Gas and Twin City Gas.

Energy Poverty has come home to roost.

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