Re: Hydro One – Dirty Rotten Blood Suckers!

nottakingitanymore — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:01:29 -0000

I just got a bill in July and a deposit demand for 388.11, have zero idea how they came up with that number.
I told them I couldn't pay it until I was working again in Sept. 2009
They said it had to be paid within 48 hours and to ask a friend. Something I will not do. Actually I thought it quite rude of them to say that. I live on a tiny ammount of money in the summer, I teach and am self employed and can't collect EU.
So I am on a strict budget. I pay my bills, but not often ontime, sometimes I have to wait a month because other bills come at the same time and I have to cut them into months. I did not have any EXTRA to give them. I told them I can't go get electricity anywhere else, that hydro was not a priviledge but a necessity and that they always get their money within 2 months, not only that, my bill's don't run over 160.00 every two months. So the large deposit seems strange. I've also been getting calls from Enbridge I'm 3 days late paying. It's frightful. My father, years back only paid all the bills twice a year, all of them. He said there was no way they were going to take his interest away that he made within those months. It was a great savings for the family. Now adays, that is not the option. I called a house builder to set up an appointment to build an ecohouse with windmill, solar panels, etc...
I'm also writing my MP and many others. This is nuts, we do not live in the tropics, and our homes would be destroyed without electricity. Our business our sanity, our health..
They are treating citizens of Ontario like dogs and loosers if they can't see there is a rescession on. I want legislature that says that you can't turn off the lights in the winter months if there are children and if there has been a slump in income.
I want this Deposit crap to disappear. You can't get blood from a stone!
If someone has been paying the total off within 2 months, I want this Deposit crap to disappear. I've been at my address for 18 years, I'm not a flight risk, they get there money, I am not 1Cent behind on any electricity I've used. I don't get it.
Are they starving or are they vultures? I'm not done with this, I'm only starting.
In the meantime, I am looking for property to build on while others are looking for work, others looking to just get by and being forced to pay UNOWED money.
It makes zero sense. A late fee is already on the bill, but "DEPOSIT" ?
It urks me, to think I live in a country that does this to it's citizens.
I'll keep you posted.

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