[Rant] Ontario Hydro-you used less energy so you have to pay more. Huh?

[Shwa Girl]

Yep. I just got my hydro bill. I love how my consumption has decreased significantly the past few months to year yet my bill has INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY.
It's getting impossible to afford living with even just the bare minimun these days.

sorry to hear about the bill

[electric_viking]

sorry to hear about the bill

and the kathleen and the justin.

[walkonby]

In Sept of 2014 I decided to switch to " equal billing " for my hydro. Just wanted to make my budget cleaner/more organized knowing every month it was going to be the same amount due. S...I...G...H........it makes no difference now really as any increase hurts. Soon I will be getting my new monthly " equally annoying bill " amount and it won't be pretty!!

[SillyLoocie]

I'm on equal billing too. I hope it isn't to painful. It's not a good situation at all.

[macw1960]

Sometimes I feel like I am fighting a losing battle. I get fed up with doing laundry, cooking and running the dishwasher at night. Yesterday I gave up and washed and dried a load of laundry during mid rate but waited and ran the dishwasher during low rate.

I am still going to be conscious of my usage but just not all the time. The government runs enough of my life already.

[samm07]

Sometimes I feel like I am fighting a losing battle. I get fed up with doing laundry, cooking and running the dishwasher at night. Yesterday I gave up and washed and dried a load of laundry during mid rate but waited and ran the dishwasher during low rate.

I am still going to be conscious of my usage but just not all the time. The government runs enough of my life already.

Agreed!!! So much agreed! I'm. Stay at home mom recently and I'm so sick of putting around all day to then scurry around at 7 trying to get stuff done 😡 like so so so sick of it. So I do laundry mid day now and whatever. I'm over it.

[Shwa Girl]

Agreed!!! So much agreed! I'm. Stay at home mom recently and I'm so sick of putting around all day to then scurry around at 7 trying to get stuff done  like so so so sick of it. So I do laundry mid day now and whatever. I'm over it.

Lady on extreme cheapskates does her laundry in the shower

[Shwa Girl]

Sometimes I feel like I am fighting a losing battle. I get fed up with doing laundry, cooking and running the dishwasher at night. Yesterday I gave up and washed and dried a load of laundry during mid rate but waited and ran the dishwasher during low rate.

I am still going to be conscious of my usage but just not all the time. The government runs enough of my life already.

maybe run the house's electricity off grid, using a bike like this lady on tlc extreme cheapskates

[macw1960]

Lady on extreme cheapskates does her laundry in the shower

Not that bad here, but if she does not use TP why was there a roll in the bathroom?

[Shwa Girl]

Not that bad here, but if she does not use TP why was there a roll in the bathroom?

maybe she got the TP for free, with coupon or freebie sample

[electric_viking]

someone has to pay for all the new wind turbines and solar panels being installed all over the province

[electric_viking]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opini...service=mobile

[Shwa Girl]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opini...service=mobile

Thanks for the article elecgtric_viking.

However, because prices were rising, Ontarians started using less energy. Power use dropped by 7 per cent between 2006 and 2014. But at the same time, thanks to subsidies to encourage greater power production from green sources, the province’s generation capacity grew by 19 per cent. As a result, the province is now a major exporter of electricity – sold at prices far below the cost of production. The more power the province exports, the more taxpayers and ratepayers lose.

So, people are using less power.
This makes me so angry, what they are doing to Ontarians.
I thing we will be drying our clothes outside on a line this summer. As we have started batch cooking on weekends;, so no cooking during the week.

[samm07]

The more I read the angrier I get. Ugh.


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[freefreefree]

yeah, saw that in the news I was shocked.