Ontario power deregulation has cost over 24 Billion

[Dr Strangelove]

And is the WORST in North America.

[al_keda]

"Hold my beer" - Alberta

[testerone]

I will repeat what I've said since the 1980s

Show me one single incidence where deregulation improved service or cost customers less.

Just returned from rescuing friends that crashed on their way to town. The RCMP closed the road as it was icy and dangerous. Then reopened it so the grader could be sent up. Hours later, my friend hit black ice on the paved highway, slid off and rolled thier truck.
One hitched to town and came to my house, just as I was getting up. Dressed, gulped coffee and took off in my Jeep where the other two were waiting by the rolled truck.
Hit road ice, so I put the Weangler in 4x4. An hour after the crashed now. Took the plates and drove him 50 kms up to his ranch. Dirt road, as we got to the turnoff to his road the grader was sitting there.
THe 10km down his road had a foot of snow, half malted and reforzen, rutted as hell that bashed and pulled the Jeep side to side. Put the plates on his other truck and he followed me back. My friend stopped and asked why his road wasn't grated. "Because it was lunch break"
The highway was now graded all the way to the paved part near town. Lucky I didn't take it out of 4x4 as 2 more cars were in the ditch since we left and every stretch the sunb hadn't yet hit was still icy. We're now talking4-5 hours after my freinds crashed and NO sand or salt rucks sent yet, just 1 grader to do the 100 km dirt road to the minesite.

Kind of like if it snows Sat night or Sunday, the main highway doesn't get plowed because that would be overtime.
If you do any long distance driving in winter you can tell the different companies as section by section the snow plowing varies from bare road to not plowed at all.

[al_keda]

[quote=testerone post_id=2120 time=1731194308 user_id=59
I will repeat what I've said since the 1980s



Show me one single incidence where deregulation improved service or cost customers less.]/quote]

Damn straight.

If you do any long distance driving in winter you can tell the different companies as section by section the snow plowing varies from bare road to not plowed at all.

I know that place! About 20k outside Grasland AB, the roads in winter turn to two ruts so deep that you don't even need to steer , because your car is boxed in tight like anti-train tracks. Had logging truck slide its load around a corner once so that the logs coming out the back were in my lane on my side of the road and I thought I was about to be hit into deep right field, until he hit a dry patch and straightened out. Same company maintains the road until just before Wandering River, where the road becomes bare pavement again.