Hydro This
Shouting out the Eastie, for our regional differences.
To the citizens of Ontario:
The electrons you feed to your toaster, your computer, your TV and your cell phone charger are collectively referred to as power or electricity. Hydro means water. Stop calling electricity hydro.
Yes, some of your power comes from hydroelectric projects. The balance comes from coal, nuclear, and natural gas sources. Referring to it all as hydro is inaccurate, misleading, and provincial as hell, in the pejorative sense of the word. Never mind that your (crappy, monopolistic, badly regulated) power companies have ridiculous names like Ontario Hydro, or Hydro One. You don’t shave with a hydro razor, when you were in university you didn’t make hydro Jello, and twenty years from now you won’t be driving hydro cars. (Those would be boats.)
Nothing reveals a person as a myopic Upper Canadian as quickly as a casual reference to the hydro company, in a province that doesn’t even have hydroelectric generation.
“Yeah man, the hydro companies got Klein to deregulate like they wanted. Now they can raise hydro rates with impunity.”
“Sure, dude. Go back to Ontario where they’ve catastrophically destroyed their deregulation plans. You’ll be happier there.”
Or:
“We lost hydro for a few hours after the hurricane.”
“How did that happen? Did an unearthed root-ball damage a water main? That must have been tough: most people only lost their power, but at least they could still boil water on the barbecue. ”
Grab a clue, Ontario.
(And you too, Manitoba.)
ev · PDDCXXIV
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