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Originally Posted by koputai
We have a neighbour who leaves about 500 watts worth of indoors lights, plus a large plasma TV on 24 hours/day. I don't know how he manages to pay for his electricity wastage!
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I was going to say that maybe this could have the silver lining of causing more people to use fewer lights, but then I remembered how massive increases in the price of cigarettes, alcohol and fuel didn't reduce consumption there.
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Originally Posted by brian nordstrom
 Yep welcome to New Zealand ?? they used us over there as guinnea pigs to see how much profit they can squeeze out of us , by privatising every thing , and now its slowely creeping over here ,, Greedy PIGS !!!!
Sorry but if NZ was any thing to go by its only gonna get worse !!  .
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Until the beginning of 2011 I was employed by NZ electricity generators, and I can tell you the only thing costing them more was the ever increasing number of office staff. They implemented a moratorium on hiring technical people - engineers, electricians, mechanical fitters, etc - yet at least quadrupled -
at least - the number of admin positions, with no end in sight. That's the reason for their rising costs - the massive increase in
utterly worthless admin people - but the main reason for increasing prices for consumers was simply profit(eering).