This is McGuinty’s Ontario: take money from those who don’t have it, give it to those who don’t need it, to buy cars with that are not made in Ontario and create no Ontario jobs, that run on power we can’t generate. All for a questionable claim that those cars are “green”.

Randall Denley’s got a great column in the Ottawa Citizen today: Why pay Ontarians to buy U.S.-built cars? Highlights include:

Premier Dalton McGuinty’s announcement this week of $10,000 government handouts for buyers of Chevrolet Volts is wrong on so many levels that one has to wonder if the premier is still firing on all cylinders.

he continues:

The batteries of the Volt are expected to last five to eight years, which might be longer than GM itself,

and:

In the wake of McGuinty’s peculiar announcement, the Ontario PC party reminded us that it has been pressing for some time for an incentive to take high-emissions clunkers off the road. That would have an immediate environmental payback, but McGuinty is not interested.

We don’t have $10B for a nuclear plant, yet we can waste $3.5B on handouts to people who don’t need it to buy unproven technology. Technology that is not any better for the environment than your ordinary coal-burning power plant. Does McGuinty know what to do with all those discarded heavy-metal containing dead batteries five to eight years from now? Does he know where to get the power to charge up all these vehicles? And, I’ll ask again: what are you going to do in the winter?

No, it seems McGuinty didn’t think this one through… as with most of his plans and bans: pesticides are toxic but Toronto can spray them safely on garbage, light bulbs are banned, but if you happen to break one of those spirally things, you better call in the hazmat-team.

I think it’s time we ban McGuinty.