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| Thread ID: 90848 | 2008-06-18 02:45:00 | Power Crisis - stuff them ! | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 679715 | 2008-06-19 02:26:00 | There can't be an energy crisis. The Market is so efficient that there can never be any problems. I believe in the Easter Bunny, too. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 679716 | 2008-06-19 03:14:00 | I like how the power saving ad's say "Your power companies are doing all they can..." Yeah Right!!! They keep charging us more and more while neglecting basic maintenance of lines and the building of additional power capacity. Transpower's been trying for years to upgrade the lines going to Auckland, as the ancient ones in service now are already at full capacity. And yet - people keep moaning about pylons, Genesis isn't allowed to build another thermal plant outside Auckland, and so on... |
somebody (208) | ||
| 679717 | 2008-06-19 03:22:00 | That, and for years Transpower hasn't been allowed (and still isn't) to increase charges by more than inflation minus 1%. What this means is that their real-world income has been going down by 1% per year, meaning they can't pay for infrastructure upgrades. When they did try to hike rates a few years back to pay for new transmission, the govt shot them down. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 679718 | 2008-06-19 04:14:00 | I think . . . . . . you'd find that the bulk of the population is a little more realistic than the politicians . . . You could stand in the center of a Southland rabbit infestation and say that (And a lot of Southland cockies do just that) . |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 679719 | 2008-06-19 05:03:00 | As long as business men are making decisions about essential services like electricity supply it will always be a big stuff up. Surely this is obvious these days the market place/privatization just provides even greater profits to the people who were already getting them anyway. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 679720 | 2008-06-19 05:18:00 | I wonder how many of those fat pigs in parliment can say they save power? I bet the answer is none. They are a waste of air let alone power. I will continue my power usage as normal. |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 679721 | 2008-06-19 05:22:00 | Once upon a time...long long ago...in a world far far away...we had a Hutt Valley Energy Board........... ..............and our house was wired for "off-peak" storage heating with its own meter and ripple control...... and it was wondrous because they charged us only half the rate of full time power.............and we gladly accepted that sometimes that circuit would be switched off for the good of society......... Then this evil demon Bradford corrupted our fair country, and with false words and forked tongue promised we would all live in a cheap electrical Utopia. Progressively the evil powers increased the off peak charges, and cunningly and progressively renamed that supply with weasel word names, until today both the full time supply and what was the off peak supply cost the same and both are called "Household Composite". Yet the evil ones can still turn off our power at will. Maybe it is now time to rewire everything to the normal supply..................... |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 679722 | 2008-06-19 08:07:00 | Like your average Austin, we are all powerless to do anything. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 679723 | 2008-06-19 09:09:00 | If we used wave power like the U.K. and wind power and hydro power and solar power then we should be all good and that would give us enough power.Just Do It!!!:thumbs: | memphis (2869) | ||
| 679724 | 2008-06-19 09:40:00 | NZ cant agree on anything for anything to happen, we have over a hundred cheifs who none were voted in by any vast majority of NZ because there is no leader to vote for. Kinda like taking the fat girl at a party because theres noone left. | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
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