>>Business Dynamics:
Electricity prices ‘almost double’ in NSW
By David Olsen on Friday, 19 March 2010
The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART), New South Wales pricing regulator has confirmed a 64 percent increase in electricity prices for NSW. With the cost increases due to the increasing costs associated with maintaining the energy networks and the Federal Governments’ Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).<<

Sixty four percent, my apologies. But I’m telling you the previous winter bill was $700 odd and the last $1300; perhaps a bit of extra use perhaps a bit of meter mis reading but those sorts of price hikes send all the few consumables we produce here up. If not a 100% now wait for the Carbon Tax Yabby.

sonofgloin,

Nice try at dismissal...but I'm still here.

I'm not an eco-warrior - just a person that recognises the greed and waste that humans are capable of.
And some of us don't have anything to prove. We choose to live simply and contentedly, using some mod cons but not going overboard.
When it's raining I hang my clothes on a clothes horse (miraculously, they still dry so I don't have to go around nude). I wash my dishes by hand, although I use gas to heat that water....and golly gee! - you'll like this one...I don't own a car.
I'm beginning to think that I'm missing out on a good whinge, though, because I'm really quite content. I don't seem to go without much...must be something wrong with my attitude, I suppose.

Poirot:>>sonofgloin,
Nice try at dismissal...but I'm still here.<<

And I for one am happy to hear that, happy new year my dear Poirot.

Right back at ya, sonofgloin,
- hope it's a good one.

Hang on there Sonofgloin, you are getting ahead of yourself lol.
You claim to already face these price increases on your meter,
when nothing further could be the truth.

http://www.industry.nsw.gov.au/energy/customers/questions-electricity-gas-prices#Who-sets-NSW-electricity-prices?

Now if you bother to read that, you will find that most of the
65% would only apply, if a CPRS were to be introduced. So far
price increases of around 10%, as from July 1, are in effect.

So your present claim and justification is frankly bollocks!

But yes, 65% might happen over the next 4 years, if the CPRS
eventually happens.

BTW, the average household consumes around 7500 kwH a year.
At say 20c a unit, that works out to 1500$. Your household
is clearly a huge user of power, compared to most Aussies.

Wharfies? Those bunch of industrial elites, who screwed the rest
of us blind for years. Australian wharves used to be an embarrasment
to the nation. Luckily things have changed.

There you go Sonofgloin, that should brighten up your new year :)

The State has had the monopoly on the Utilities for ever and today; Prices have been on the rise now for about 5 years, well in excess of CPI, but it is Government, so it does what it pleases;
The reasons why there is a sharp spike in Utilities prises is obvious; The Government has plundered the system for so long now and totally neglected the obvious upgrades and replacement; So not only has it stolen the product before it had been produced, It has devised a new regime of plunder in multiple implementations , The increases are a slap in the face and a subtle reminder of the predatory nature, incompetency and brainless idiocy that calls itself democratic government. It robbed and destroyed the network and now summons you to pay hundreds of times more now than it would have ever cost to build in the first place. And has no intention to add the return to anyone other than themselves.

Belly do not pee under your Nabors tree, do it in your own pockets; you may have enjoyed a marvellous and Exorbitant Christmas pigging out and rubbing others face in it , but ignoring the plight of tens of thousands of others who could not feed themselves because they are being robbed of their Exorbitant life style as some may offer as an excuse, Just in Australia; lets not mention the others on this earth.

So enjoy it while you can , reality has a bad habit of catching up fast – very fast