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Originally Posted by calgaryblood
Maybe it's just me but isn't that a reasonable bill even for Alberta? It's about $112 for electricity. Which might be a little high but definetely not "choose between food and electricity" high.
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Reasonable in context of someone working. What about seniors, fixed incomes, one income homes, etc.? When there is no end in sight (here in Ontario), with respect to hydro rates and constant price increases, it's completely understandable that people are choosing between hydro and groceries.
My rates went up May 1. Ontario Hydro actually had the balls to say publicly that they had to raise rates because the consumer had been doing what we were told with respect to saving energy and we had conserved too much, so now they had to make up the shortfall. I could not believe what I was hearing.
It seems it doesn't matter what the consumer does, we are taking it up the ***.