Electric Extortion

Just the other day, a worker came over from Hydro Ottawa to install their new Smart Meter into our home, and every home in the city.

Their plan, is to charge people more for electricity used during 'peak hours'. Peak hours, being anytime between 7am to 11am, and 5pm to 8pm during most of the year.

As I've discussed before, the Ontario Hydro companies continuously fail to meet the standard sales technique of supply and demand. Normally, when consumers demand more, the suppliers will produce more, and therefore increasing their business. Hydro Ottawa, however, is extortion of an essential service.

And naturally, there will always be an increase in demand for electricity. Think about it, not only is their an increase in computers and electronic gadgets, but the population of Canada is rising by 250,000 immigrants a year, and an additional 100,000 or so refugees. Who, of course, require electricity as well.

So instead of extorting prices to try and drive down consumption, they should merely build more plants to produce the power required. Simple supply and demand.