posted 22 May 2001 10:44 PM
Has anyone heard of this? Supposedly, Ontario provided the information to electricity customers last year. The CBC news article says that the private power companies that are asking people to sign up before deregulation is in effect have a clause in the fine print that assigns any energy rebates to the company. The public agencies responsible don't have any literature anywhere on the public record explaining the rebate, which is supposed to kick in when the yearly average cost rises above 3.8-cents per kilowatt hour. Does anyone know how to read their electrical bills?
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posted 23 May 2001 06:24 AM
That's a pretty outrageous trick. Sure, any rebates consumers get might be put entirely towards the electric bill, but what it really does is gives the power company a boatload of taxpayer money it can sock away in the bank and collect interest on.
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