Editor,
Grocery bills are rising. So are costs to light your home.
Maybe there is a way to recoup some of these unwelcome and unanticipated expenses.
But ingrained habits die hard and here’s why: In the so-called olden days, we got our light from burning candles. Candles cost money to buy, or they taxed our time to make at home.
Consequently, if we didn’t need light, the candle was snuffed. Folks were careful to save their energy resource and get best value for their money.
It’s not like that anymore. We leave lights on (candle power) all over our house. We even keep lights on when we leave the house. How did we become such a forgetful society about the source of our energy? When did our sense of entitlement happen?
Is the candle really endless? What would happen to our power grid if we respected where our energy came from, and snuffed out the candle, or in other words, turned off the lights?
Instead of adding more power to the grid to supply our appetite (wastefulness) like TCE proposes, how much power and money would we be saving if we just changed our habits?
I bet the incremental savings of turning off the lights would offset some of the rising costs of groceries and lighting our homes (also lowering the heat and dressing appropriately). How can anyone object to that?
Could our dear town Meaford lead by example, and show others how to reduce our personal consumption of energy, curb our abuse of the grid, and protect our personal income?
Hey Meaford, let’s think about turning on/off our lights!
Caryn Colman, Meaford
