If you're gonna complain, at least get your facts right

Driving in this morning I hear Stuntman Stu complaining (and you know with a name like that, it was high brow lamenting :P  ) about the announcement that the province of Ontario made that this summer electricity prices will be hiked.

"I'm Dalton McGuinty, I won't raise your taxes" in a really moronic voice. He does this of course, multiple times. Just like the lame jackasses in high school make the same stupid jokes over and over again.

First of all, removing a price fix for a service provided is not raising taxes by any stretch of the imagination. The Health Care Premium? Yeah, that was a tax. This is not.

Secondly, I don't like Dalton McGuinty and his Liberals but one thing I have agreed with since he was elected was the idea that fixing electricity prices at an artificially low level is a bad idea. If it costs X dollars to produce the current amount of electricity and develop new sources for our growing province, and we pay Y dollars for that service, and X > Y then we have an immediate problem. In the land of intelligent people, Stu, we call this a deficit.

Do you know who pays for this deficit, Stu? In your great wisdom, you ass of the airwaves, can you conceive of what happens when a government sponsored monopoly runs a deficit? I'll give you a hint. The government pays for it. From our taxes. (I'm not making this up.) Of course, I can almost guarantee you that the round-about way of paying for our electricity is less efficient and has areas of waste so in fact we are probably paying more overall.

The simple fact of the matter is that to make people want to conserve electricity, you have to show them what it costs to run their appliances like mad men all summer. In order to develop new generating plants, we need to start paying now so our children do not grow up with rolling blackouts as a fact of life.

Dalton McGuinty has done a lot of things I don't like but this is not one of them. And morons like Stuntman Stu don't change that.