Edison would be impressed

Another interesting point emerged from Our Dear Premier’s unannounced (why not?) campaign stop in Cartwright-L’anse au Clair on Monday night.

VOCM Nightline caller Francis recounted last night:

The Premier came in last night to L’anse au Clair to a rally and he spoke about the energy plan and he stated that if you turn on your lights and you got cheap power, it doesn’! t matter where it comes from and where the lines go, and he’s committed to this, that we will have cheap rates and that.. He said if you turn on your lights and you have cheap hydro, it doesn’t matter where it goes and so long as we get cheap rates it doesn’t matter, not to me anyway.

Another account of Danny’s argument attributed a slightly different example to Our Dear Premier – “your toaster don’t care where it gets the power from…”

Apparently lights and toasters operate on entirely different physical principles in Newfoundland than they do in Labrador, because fossil-fuel electrical generation, however it is underwritten, seems to matter, a great deal, to the light bulbs and kitchen appliances of the island.

Or at least this would seem to be the necessary implication of Our Dear Premier’s argument as to why coastal Labrador doesn’t really need no stinkin’ power line.

Perhaps it wasn’t. But none of the chase-plane reporters bothered to ask.