Encouraging heat pumps over natural gas would lower long-term costs for homeowners and reduce Ontario’s CO2 emissions.
“Conservatives go backwards” has become the mantra of this country. Heat pumps, wind and solar, LGBTQ2S+ issues, women’s rights, healthcare, everything that we could be progressing on, the conservatives are regressing.
And we keep electing them.
“Conservatives go backwards” has become the mantra of this country
The mantra of every country.
Conservatism is always an attempt to regain some fictitious “golden age” that never really was.
Make we should call them “regressives” instead.
Another option which regulators seem to avoid is the adoption of passive house standards for new builds. Our Canadian/North American housing standards depend on large energy inputs for heating and cooling - and that doesn’t seem to be changing.