http://www.canada.com/harbourcitystar/news/story.html?id=68a5083a-f7f0-49af-a30e-f2aa7750335c
Summary:
This article talks about how BC Hydro is trying to make everyone help in conserving energy. BC Hydro has partnered up with more than 500 retailers within the province to try to convince everyone to help conserve energy. Every October, BC Hydro would have a Power Smart Month. They hope that customers would give energy efficient products a chance. They have offered a special instant in-store discount on specialty compact fluorescent light bulbs and Energy Star lighting fixtures. They're trying to attract more customer to use these energy conserving products. Some of the retailers that are taking part are Costco, London Drugs, Zellers, Home Depot, Illuminations, Save on Foods, Walmart and Thrifty Foods.
Connection:
The connection between the article and chapter 12 is the cash discount. They're trying to use cash discount to attract more customers. BC Hydro uses cash discounts to attract more customers to switch to energy efficient products. This would attract more customers to buy from BC Hydro, because everyone likes discounts. The participating retailers would have benefit the most from this. They can use discounts to attrat more customers. The retailers would have their revenue reducted slightly, but can also increase it greatly due to the high amount of consumers.
Reflection:
I think that conserving enegry is a big thing. Even though I don't help much with conserving energy, I think that it is definitely an important thing to do. Energy conservation will greatly affect our future. We should start conserving energy, if we haven't started. I think that starting to save energy now, will greatly benefit our future generations, and of course we want our kids, and their kids to have a good life to live. If we use too much energy now, we'll just teach our future generations to do the same thing, and this world will run out of power sooner than we'll think.
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I agree that conserving energy is a big thing and helps out the enviroment, also that the discounts given on energy saving products like fluorescent light bulbs and Energy Star lighting fixtures was a very good idea. BC Hydro has shown great care for the enviroment by partnering up with 500 retailers to help support October's PowerSmart month. I also agree that I dont do my part for PowerSmart month or conserving energy, but it is still a very important thing that we should all start to do now, because it will help benefit us when we are older as well as future generations to come.
-S. Chand
Comment - This is GREAT! I am so surprised how you, Michael Li, is the first person to write about this topic! I myself believe conserving energy is a very important and great thing to do. I remember a couple years ago when the new fluorescent light bulbs came out and they gave either a discount, or a free fluorescent light bulb if you went to Home Depot to buy one. I think BC Hydro is a company that acutally cares about conserving energy, while the other 500 retailers within the province only care about making profits from the partnership with BC Hydro. I am sorry but I have to disagree with you in the point that "we should start to save energy now." I am not disagreeing that we should start and continue to save energy, but it is the fact that most of us say we will do it, but in real life it is us teenagers that leave our lights on, leave the tap running, etc. In conclusion, I hope everyone will start and continue to save energy because of BC Hydro's plan to help everyone conserve more energy!
P.Ngo
I completely agree with you to start conserving energy, because i believe we should set a good example for the next generation. We wouldn't want them to be following in our footsteps and using up our energy like they are an unlimited resource. Also we should get a good start on conserving energy so that our later generations won't have such a hard time trying to keep the world from running out of energy. I believe that everyone wouldn't mind spending a little more money to buy energy saving products if it would help our future generations from having a war over the resources we have left. So i think it is very important that we start being more conscientious about the amount of energy we use, and I'm really glad that you brought up this topic because i think everyone should know about how much using up the energy can have a impact on society.
I like the idea that not only is BC Hydro is having a Power Smart Month every October, but also promoting energy saving products. This is a benefit not only to their profits but also the environment. Society now is all about energy saving that by using a cash discount it would greatly help their profits and the environment. I think that BC Hydro is doing a great job, I agree with you that we would want our next generation to have a good life without having to worry about the environment killing them. So we have to work harder and support the Power Smart Month!
K. Cheng
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