Christoph
28-03-07, 17:41
Toronto calls itself a green city, and its wholly owned power distribution subsidiary Toronto Hydro has been handing out the CFL's and advertising conservation like mad. It has been so successful that the electricity loads in the city fell by 178.5 million kilowatt hours — enough to power 178,000 homes for a month — between spring 2005 and the end of 2006. Oops, that means a $10.4 million drop in revenue, leading to a 6.3% increase in hydro rates to cover it, eating up almost every penny of the savings. This is such an incentive to turn out the lights, telling everyone to spend money to conserve and then penalizing them for doing it. Only in Green Toronto.
No, wait, there is the green ...
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/buy_cfls_save_e.php
No, wait, there is the green ...
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/buy_cfls_save_e.php