lead82
Senior Member
Why not vote for the Green Party? They have a better platform and some new ideas than the NDP.
I'm a proud progressive/urban *conservative*.
Nuclear generation will continue to be the backbone of Ontario’s supply, and we have confirmed our commitment to nuclear with the refurbishment of the Bruce and Darlington sites. Due to the strong supply situation, we have deferred the construction of new nuclear generating units.
I suggest you read back, Juan, and you attribute quotes out of context and some I didn't make. But that's fine, because Bob has made a point contrary to his persuasion: That the future planning of the needs of Ontario's electric grid and generation (or importation) is trending down, not up.To add to your resume, you spend a lot of time insulting people who disagree with you on UT (see below)
You need to chill out
Well Bob, last time I voted in this nation, it was for the Conservatives. I don't wave flags though. Anyone so naive as to think there's salvation in joining your favourite team diving off a cliff is to be pitied.Bob Burnhamthorpe said: ↑
I'm a proud progressive/urban *conservative*.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7180811/Impacts of electric vehicle chargers on the power grid
Abstract:
While the number of internal combustion vehicles is stagnating, and is even expected to decrease in a few decades, the amount of electric vehicles is predicted to increase. Most of the electric cars are designed for daily urban use, thus in the near future, bigger cities might have some ten percentage of electric cars running on their streets during the day. And these vehicles need to be recharged in the evening or during night, so the electric vehicles, including the high performance electric cars, will interact with the power grid in this period. The impact of the charging process is predicted to be apparent on the distribution system, mostly on the low voltage grid, by influencing the network voltage profiles and the loading of the grid elements. As a practical issue we have chosen parts of the LV grid of Budapest, a city with almost two million inhabitants. If 20% of the cars is electric powered, then every fifth household has a car that has to be charged. In this paper we present the results of simulations conducted on the aforementioned grids with chargers placed at different places, using the DIgSILENT Power Factory software package. To get a better view of how electric cars' charging would affect the LV grid, we have run several load flow simulations on a large number of power grids. By statistically analyzing the obtained results, an overall picture can be acquired about the possible issues that electric car charging might have on the electric network of a large city.
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Take the ridiculous subsidies (both from the companies and the consumer) away, and this happens:
1. Very few are sold (see: Hong Kong ... usually a leader in these things).
Also, the average person sees a story from the fawning MSM how Tesla is the most valuable car company in the U.S., and they go, "HOW?"
Tesla has never made a profit.
I think the liberals are pretty much done outside of the GTA
This has been true for a long time. I would add cities in general. They do well in Ottawa too. Sprinkle in seats from KWC and London.
But this is also the problem for Conservatives. And for a voter like me, drives us nuts. 80% urban province. And the Tories always seem to cater to a rural base. They deserve to lose for idiocy with that.
They don't seem to get that you can be an urbane conservative for some reason. Instead, they think the red necks should dictate conservativism. So you get idiocy like losing seats in Ottawa because Hudak didn't want to commit to Phase 2 of their LRT.
Transit for example is an easy win for them too. They could promise to finish GO RER by the end of their next term and win seats in the 905. They announce that DRL will start construction by the end of their first term, they might even win seats in downtown Toronto.
But I expect will see them announce scaling back on the Liberal transit expansion program and no bold initiatives.
Care to dig to find who held the majority in the legislature at that time?Wasn't the OMB a Liberal creation?
The Conservatives would be more likely to scrap it altogether.
I can't bring myself to vote Liberal and don't trust Patrick Brown.
Why would they when polls tells them otherwise?
Bad news keeps coming for Kathleen Wynne: Hepburn
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/com...-keeps-coming-for-kathleen-wynne-hepburn.html
But I'm with you, instead of doubling down and commit to urban projects such a transit to consolidate their lead, they will use polls as this to justify announcing cuts in transit and then the next election will be much closer than people will realize
- 49 per cent of voters in the city of Toronto support the Tories, 31 per cent the Liberals and 15 per cent the NDP.
- Even in the downtown core the Conservatives led the Liberals by a 43-37 margin.
This is the dilemma I witness every election cycle it seems. Voters are convinced the Conservatives are somehow going to bring the Province into the Dark Ages with no substantive proof and ergo just allow the Liberals (whom always manages to get their base to turnout) to skate by on their own incompetence time and again.
Certainly Toronto voters have some reason to believe the provincial PC Party will be harmful to them. The PC's anti-Toronto record includes:
Cancellation of the Eglinton Subway (for which tunneling had started)
Forcing amalgamation on us in the face of pretty overwhelming opposition (no amalgamation for Conservative-voting Kitchener Waterloo, though)
Market value assessment - fundamentally a wealth tax on higher-valued Toronto real estate for the portion of our property taxes used kicked to the Province for education funding