The cost of the Cult of Climastrology’s policies have real world implications for consumers. They just don’t want you to know about it
(Financial Post) Ontario consumers won’t see a separate line item on their electricity bills showing the cost of the Liberal government’s cap-and-trade plan to fight climate change.
The Ontario Energy Board has decided charges related to the cost of the program, which is aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, will be included in the ’delivery’ line charge on hydro bills.
The board admits utilities and industrial natural gas users argued for a separate line item to provide greater transparency to customers about the cost of cap-and-trade, but it says consumer groups said that wasn’t necessary.
Just too be clear, many of the people complaining about not getting what they want are often the same people who voted in the politicians who implemented the Hotcoldwetdry policies. Now they are shocked that government is going to be less than transparent in showing just how much the cap and trade policies cost them.
The Opposition accuses the government of trying to “bury the evidence†on bills that cap-and-trade is another “cash grab,†and says it’s “apparent†that the energy board is more concerned about protecting the Liberals than consumers.
PC energy critic John Yakabuski says people have a right to know exactly how much the government’s climate change plans will cost them every month.
Yakabuski says to make matters even worse, consumers will pay the HST on top of the cap-and-trade costs, which he says amounts to “a tax on top of a tax.â€
This will supposedly raise $1.9 billion (Canadian money) a year. The government plans on spending $8.3 billion on all sorts of spreading awareness, nagging, and forced changes campaigns. Virtually every carbon market has fallen into junk bond status, so, all this money has to come from somewhere. That would be you average citizen.
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So, it wasn’t “necessary?” If the utility companies wanted it, they were obviously willing to pay whatever costs were incurred to calculate and publish it, so there’s no particular advantage to the utility companies to keep it hidden.
Why, I wonder, do the left want to keep the costs of their programs hidden? Just because it wasn’t deemed ‘necessary’ does not mean that it wouldn’t be informative or interesting.
Were I running one of those utilities, I’d put the costs on utility bills anyway. It might have to remain part of the ‘delivery’ charges line, to meet whatever regulations exist in specifying total consumer billing, but there’s (probably) nothing which prevents an asterisked comment noting just how much of the ‘delivery’ charges are made up of these fees.