Black Out

At least that's what could have happened if things had turned out differently a couple weeks ago. It's not that I don't like the Liberal Provincial Energy minister, it's that his party lies and breaks it's promises so much I can't really tell if it's him that's lying or the greedy union.

I've stopped counting how many promises they've broken - but some apparently haven't. Since then I've kind of got the hint that you believe what the Ontario Liberals do, not what they say they will do.

The most practical solution to the power crisis is to build more coal plants. The truth is that the government can't build more coal plants because of our commitments under Kyoto. We can't build more Nuclear power plants, because that would prove everyone right that has been saying for a while that Kyoto would force us to do just that. Deregulation - nah - the Tories tried to do that... The Ontario Liberals would never admit they were wrong. Giving alternative energy sources a chance... That would require that people pay the true price of electricity and not the government capped rate that is killing alternative energy providers. And that won't happen, because it would tick off too many voters in McGuinty's constituency. As soon as they would have to pay more, and actually turn off the lights when they leave a room, voters would freak.

My guess is that all we'll do is buy excess capacity from the US... That is after a couple black-outs happen that tick off the millions of Americans our system is interconnected with.

Tip o' the hat to NealeNews.