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View Poll Results: Do you get your electricity from renewable sources? | |||
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2 | 15.38% |
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5 | 38.46% |
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4 | 30.77% |
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2 | 15.38% |
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Home Improvement Goon
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Moose Jaw, SK, CA
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: 1000 Islands region, Ontario, Canada
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![]() It's a good question. One reason I can think of: when you say "invest", how can you be sure your money is going to go to expanded renewable capacity? That's one thing Bullfrog promises: the money buys generation directly.
Your question is similar to carbon offsets: why buy those when you could just spend your "offset/guilt" money on, say, home efficiency improvements.
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Home Improvement Goon
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Moose Jaw, SK, CA
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If the average household uses 800 - 1000 KWh per month, subscribing to Bullfrog would cost $18 - $20 per month. I think it's safe to say I would have a larger positive impact on the environment if I took that same amount of money and purchased three 4-packs of CFLs each month. I wouldn't use them, I would just drop them in my neighbour's mailboxes. They'll be used eventually, nobody throws out free lightbulbs. |
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