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| Thread ID: 127951 | 2012-11-23 19:40:00 | Why is electricity sooo expensive? | ruup (1827) | PC World Chat |
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| 1314449 | 2012-11-25 23:21:00 | If that is the case it is not very much at 0.3750 cents a day. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1314450 | 2012-11-26 06:09:00 | Hi, what you thing this is also a reason..? "Over the past few years the Price of Electricity has been on a steady increase generally as a result of extensive network upgrades to the ‘poles and wires’ and maintenance from energy distributors and further as a result of the effects of the carbon tax. As consumers we bear the brunt of these upgrade costs". |
jamesjohan25 (16952) | ||
| 1314451 | 2012-11-26 06:58:00 | So what do they do with profit money? | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1314452 | 2012-11-26 07:30:00 | So what do they do with profit money? Pay their CEO's competitive rates! |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 1314453 | 2012-11-26 08:27:00 | Pay their CEO's competitive rates! We will have to have better figures than that. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1314454 | 2012-11-26 08:30:00 | We will have to have better figures than that. My apology, I forgot the directors. |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 1314455 | 2012-11-26 10:06:00 | And the share-holders who live in other countries. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1314456 | 2012-11-26 18:10:00 | Yes, we need to come up with some decent facts and figures on this subject. So far we (PCW F1) have come up with no actual plan on how to lower electricity prices. CEOs, Directors and shareholders are all entitled to a fair remuneraton. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1314457 | 2012-11-26 18:16:00 | I have seen some AA figures and the basic cost of petrol is the same in both countries. It is just that our goverment puts a lot more tax on petrol. (Does it all go to the roads now?) Ahhhhh, so the difference in Petrol Price is Government Taxation. I’ve read that elsewhere too but thought it was a Petrol Company cop out. ;) So, what intelligent Government would ratchet up Petrol Prices, the most inflationary commodity of all alongside Electricity? :rolleyes: Could it be that lower Petrol Prices, lower Electricity Prices, Lower Tax (GST), which lead to lower Food Prices, all of which lead to greater disposable income, is the difference between Australia and New Zealand? I can remember when Australian Money was frowned upon in NZ because our Money was worth so much more. :lol: You could even get two American Dollars for our one. (10/-). Then we had free health care, a hospital in nearly every town and were considered one of the wealthiest country’s in the world. Our distance from the “Markets” was exactly the same as it is now except freight was much more difficult then. So what happened? Well successive Governments wrecked it by listening to stupid theory’s from Treasury. Remember the Government may change, but Treasury remains, and unless you have a Government that directs Treasury you wind up in the situation a lot of countries, including us, are in today. The product of failed Economic Theory’s. |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1314458 | 2012-11-26 18:48:00 | BM Back in the time you are talking about the UK took all of our lamb, then they joined the common market. Freight costs will always be dearer for NZ as we do not command good rates due to our small size. I have read that shipping companies prefer to sail to Australian ports where they can off load say 100 containers, rather than NZ with only 20. But I do agree with you that it is disposable income that is the important thing. If people have money left over after mortgage/rent, power, and food, to save or spend, then they will feel rich and fell good. To me its has seemed that every few years successive governments have "introduced a new tax or levy" on petrol. Its only 3 cents a litre and it will...... After a few of these, it all adds up. But lets get back to power prices, the topic of this thread. And lets get those figures. |
Digby (677) | ||
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