{"id":5915,"date":"2010-11-03T19:14:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T23:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2010-11-03T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T23:14:16","slug":"why-i-didnt-vote-for-george-smitherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/03\/why-i-didnt-vote-for-george-smitherman\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I didn’t vote for George Smitherman"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t vote for George Smitherman<\/a> because I fundamentally disagree with the secret deal he initiated with the Korean consortium<\/a> (including Samsung<\/a> and Kepco<\/a>). A feed-in tariff is all about equal access to the right to connect. The consortium, with its guaranteed grid capacity, sidesteps this equal access.<\/p>\n

To make things worse, the consortium may have access to a price adder<\/a> on top of the FiT<\/a> prices. This is supposed to recognize the consortium’s expertise in the supply chain, and its consequential creation of jobs through local manufacturing.\u00c2\u00a0 There are many other companies \u00e2\u20ac\u201d some of which actually have supply chain experience in the renewable energy sector \u00e2\u20ac\u201d who would bring the same number of jobs for the same number of megawatts.<\/p>\n

So, ixnay on the Ithermansmay for that. There’s no way I’d vote for the glistening oaf<\/a> (a phrase coined by Catherine<\/a> after seeing this picture<\/a>), so Joe Pantalone<\/a> it was.\u00c2\u00a0 Joey Pants’ campaign was, well, a bit pants<\/a>, but he was the most appropriate of the candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t vote for George Smitherman because the secret deal he initiated with the Korean Consortium is anti-competitive and utterly counter to the spirit of any feed-in tariff. Pantalone, despite a rather weak platform, was closer to my ideals. There was no way I’d vote for that glistening oaf Rob Ford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[930,2229,147,1547,43,59],"class_list":["post-5915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","category-wind-things","tag-election","tag-fit","tag-ontario","tag-solar","tag-toronto","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1xp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5918,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions\/5918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}