Prices are skyrocketing because of excessive spending on poles and wires, charged to consumers too quickly; grossly excessive dividends to government; the carbon tax which will be passed on plus a profit margin like all costs.
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Well they urgently needed to invest more in poles and wires. Fact is that the old systems were stuffed and regularly starting fires in places like WA. Somebody has to pay for those upgrades and powerline workers are highly paid!

Next we have subsidies paid to people who have installed solar panels, with electricity bought from them at many times market rates. That was a political decision, all users pay.

Next we have the growing population, which means more power generation equipment and all the rest.

There is an easy way to reduce electricity charges. Drop the carbon tax.

Will 10% fix all. What about dividend gouging. The states have found a way of making money.

infastructure isnt just wires/poles
its also gas lines..[in qld at any rate..

the true shock will be a thing called a metering service fee*../of 59.000 cents per day..per metering point

but wait just got a letter..its only 26.000 cents per day
as i use one dollar and 50 cents of tarrif 11..im waiting to see how much 26 with three decimal points is..in my bill.

while the press distracted with federal carbon tax/smoking tax issues
the state alp locked in price increases..for power*

the parties betray us
no lawyer should be allowed to govern..;[ie make law
ie seperation of powers*..the servant of the court shall not lord it over law..in parlement*

SEPPERATION OF POWERS
is urgently needed..before the bankers lawyers finish their enron-esq pricing structures..looting and plundering for short term gain..laying on free pipelines/building export ports..yeah govt is great.,.

for some.

<<Fact is that the old systems were stuffed and regularly starting fires in places like WA>>

Especially old tree-systems like old gum trees, where lots of un-oxidised carbon is stored in the form of flammable oil.

Meanwhile politicians can hardly believe the good news from their appointed scientists who inform them that they just discovered that silicon wires don't cause fires! As a result, all electrical wires will be replaced by silicon (minister, 3 years later: "it's not my fault, nobody advised me that silicon doesn't conduct electricity or even that electricity needs to be conducted at all - don't we all go wireless today?"), then natural causes will once again top the list of fire-causes, making fires more spectacular than ever! (second on the list will become home-fires caused by unsupervised candles, which is good too because it will boost the building industry, thus reducing unemployment and moving the dole-money away from those undeserving parasite-scums and over into the fine-lined politicians' pockets!)

Yabby>> Well they urgently needed to invest more in poles and wires. Fact is that the old systems were stuffed and regularly starting fires in places like WA. Somebody has to pay for those upgrades and powerline workers are highly paid!<<

Yabby, what a lame example of the need for improving infrastructure, scrub fires over in the west.

At least you are always consistent. If it has to do with bank profits or corporate greed you side with the biller rather than the billee.

Astute comment about the population growth. Given I have not been suffering any ongoing power outages in the fifty odd years I have been using electricity I can only extrapolate that your corporate mates killing off 90% of our manufacturing output over the past thirty years has evened it up. Manufacturing gone, domestic draw rise, we are even, except it is getting harder to pay for the stuff.

Your free market mates have shown me something I have never seen before. A usage kilowatt rate that goes down with every new reading of the meter, and a price that goes up with every reading of the meter. I have said it to you before Yabby, your “let them eat cake” mentality is unbecoming.