{"id":126,"date":"2013-09-17T06:28:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=126"},"modified":"2013-09-17T06:28:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:28:47","slug":"ive-got-the-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/ive-got-the-power\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve got the Power!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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$0..now there\u2019s a bill I\u2019d like to get..sadly only a reality in the magical world of clip art..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Was it just me and the handful of people I know, or did everyone get a pleasant surprise<\/p><\/div>\n

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in the last domestic power bill? Its usually the one to panic about, what with it being
\nthe end of Winter and all (all those nights guiltily burning the heater in short sleeves).
\nBut between us we all use numerous different NSW power companies yet the one
\nconstant was a better than normal bill this time.<\/p>\n

The cynic in me is looking for answers here and I\u2019m looking squarely at the government\u2019s
\nrecent noise about getting tough on price-gouging in view of the new carbon Tax. Sure
\nmost of us in the know, realise that no Australian political party\u00a0actually\u00a0gives two
\nhoots about global warming. The economy is based around a GST thanks to John
\nHoward and Meg Lee\u2019s, the only way a GST based economy can work is for the GST to go
\nup (never down) every so often. Of course what sane politician would actually put the
\nhighly unpopular GST up a few percent? So its dressed up as a green tax and we get much
\nthe same result.<\/p>\n

Anyway whether you agree with the elaborate economic theory above (the VAT just went
\nup in the UK also) the question has to remain why was the first Carbon-Tax-Power-Bill
\nactually less for a lot of people? Now I\u2019m not saying that Power Companies\u00a0were
\nPrice-gouging right up until the point the Government at least said it was getting tough
\non stopping it, I wouldn\u2019t say that we have been price-gouged for some time now and
\nonly the threat of imminent action by the Government has panicked power companies
\ninto doing the right thing on this bill, I would never say that…<\/p>\n

I will be curious to see how this pans out in the years to come. When unpopular things
\nlike this first kick off everyone is on their best behaviour but that quickly falls by the
\nway. Now of course I would\u00a0like\u00a0to see a variant on the East German \u00a0Stasi who drag
\nElectricity exec\u2019s away kicking and screaming in the middle of the night to give this
\ngouging legislation some teeth, however that is perhaps a little too optimistic (what
\nabout just letting old age pensioners kick them a bit)…<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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