TheFiend
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Was originally going to bring up this stupid shit on a NZ forum....
c'ept I'm perma bant from NZ forums, and apparently includes using fake email addys & VPNs too.
Anyways, I'm hoping to see what y'all reckon of the following fuckery.
I've been noticing being charged a shitload more for electricity than usual, even though I'm actually using less than I did this time last year, currently at approx ~150kwh/month vs around ~250kwh/month 12 months ago.
Honestly I haven't been able to work out exactly how so far, but I'm sure its to do with the gubmint's bullshit utility corp regulations changes, that basically increases utility charges under the false pretenses of somehow making shit "fair and equitable"—even though its the total opposite as far as I can tell.
First off, check out this vacuous NZ article:
"Power companies are alerting some consumers to another increase to their bills as low-use fixed charges continue to be phased out."
"And it is not now clear a review of the policy to be done by the Ministry of Businesss, Innovation and Employment will go ahead."
"From April 1 electricity retailers will be able to increase their daily charges from $1.03 per day to $1.38."
"The phase-out began in 2022 and was set to go for five years. It is on track to increase again to $1.72 next April - if the current Government doesn't intervene."
"The previous Government decided to phase out the low-use fixed charges which are paid by around 60 percent of households - arguing it was unfair for higher-use households to pay more for distribution."
How the actual fuck is it unfair for higher-use households to pay more "for distribution" when they're the ones using more.
*The article above is quoted from here:
www.rnz.co.nz
Ffs, I'm just not getting the supposed "logic" they're using.
And here is another vacuous article:
"Those on a low-user plan had paid a lower fixed charge since 2004 because of a regulation aimed at encouraging households to use less power."
"A government-commissioned review recommended scrapping this low fixed charge because it wasn’t fair to standard users, many of whom were low-income households that used a lot of power because they were large families or were heating houses with poor insulation."
Note: the NZ gubmint spent a shitload of tax payer funds since the early '00s subsidizing insulation for all rentals which they'd made mandatory...so most houses here are now insulated.
Additionally the gubmint already hands out wads of free cash to any cunts claiming "electricity hardship".
While the gubmint themselves asserts that 60% of NZ households are on low-user fixed rates.
Thus the majority are being responsible with electricity usage, whereas the minority 40% are not being responsible and undoubtedly also includes more than merely households only, but commercial, industrial & other high-use clients too.
(*they've obviously neglected to clarify this though)
Therefore according to gubmint "logic", apparently the responsible 60% of households on fixed low-use rates who maintain using less than the maximum low-use threshold of 8000kwh annually, must also now be responsible for the 40% of irresponsible electricity users on standard rates, who use over the minimum standard use threshold of 8000kwh annually.
How tf does that even "logic"?
Article cont...
“Removal of this regulation aims to make the system fairer and more equitable, but the transition may cause pressure in some households. This scheme is designed to ease that pressure, particularly at a time when cost-of-living pressures are high,” Abernethy said."
"Power companies are not expected to increase their profit from phasing out the low fixed charge. Abernethy said when the 5-year phase-out is complete, it’s estimated the variable charge – what you pay for the power you actually use – will be 36% lower than it would have been if the low fixed charge wasn't scrapped, helping offset the impact of the change."
The above was quoted from here:
www.consumer.org.nz
These retards are virtue signaling that the estimated variable charge may end up being 36% lower for everyone.... while also claiming this would magically offset the impact of the change....yet they've completely failed to acknowledge that by 2026, all low-use fixed charges are guaranteed to increase by well over 200%-(from the 2022 rate)-for approximately 60% of all NZ households.
Beyond that, I can't figure how the NZ gubmint came to the conclusion that the 40% standard usage minority is automatically comprised of the presumably majority of all low-income households while the 60% low-usage majority of all households somehow aren't.
I mean the claimed assumption is just fuckin' moronic because (a) they've literally pulled it out of their fat arses without any proof at all, and (b) its far more likely most low-income households–out of basic necessity–would be actively minimizing electricity consumption and therefore also low-use households.
From my pov this nonsense is typical stealth communist societal subversion crap.
Part of the early phase were societal cohesion is erroded away by imposing dumb ass "fair, equity" bollocks wherein everyone who's responsible for their shit is suddenly forced to carry the burdens of all the irresponsible fucks along with shameless corporations burdens too.
Am I wrong?
c'ept I'm perma bant from NZ forums, and apparently includes using fake email addys & VPNs too.Anyways, I'm hoping to see what y'all reckon of the following fuckery.
I've been noticing being charged a shitload more for electricity than usual, even though I'm actually using less than I did this time last year, currently at approx ~150kwh/month vs around ~250kwh/month 12 months ago.
Honestly I haven't been able to work out exactly how so far, but I'm sure its to do with the gubmint's bullshit utility corp regulations changes, that basically increases utility charges under the false pretenses of somehow making shit "fair and equitable"—even though its the total opposite as far as I can tell.
First off, check out this vacuous NZ article:
"Power companies are alerting some consumers to another increase to their bills as low-use fixed charges continue to be phased out."
"And it is not now clear a review of the policy to be done by the Ministry of Businesss, Innovation and Employment will go ahead."
"From April 1 electricity retailers will be able to increase their daily charges from $1.03 per day to $1.38."
"The phase-out began in 2022 and was set to go for five years. It is on track to increase again to $1.72 next April - if the current Government doesn't intervene."
"The previous Government decided to phase out the low-use fixed charges which are paid by around 60 percent of households - arguing it was unfair for higher-use households to pay more for distribution."
How the actual fuck is it unfair for higher-use households to pay more "for distribution" when they're the ones using more.*The article above is quoted from here:
What is happening to consumers' power bills as low-use charge comes off?
Power companies are alerting some consumers to another increase to their bills as low-use fixed charges continue to be phased out.
www.rnz.co.nz
Ffs, I'm just not getting the supposed "logic" they're using.
And here is another vacuous article:
"Those on a low-user plan had paid a lower fixed charge since 2004 because of a regulation aimed at encouraging households to use less power."
"A government-commissioned review recommended scrapping this low fixed charge because it wasn’t fair to standard users, many of whom were low-income households that used a lot of power because they were large families or were heating houses with poor insulation."
Note: the NZ gubmint spent a shitload of tax payer funds since the early '00s subsidizing insulation for all rentals which they'd made mandatory...so most houses here are now insulated.
Additionally the gubmint already hands out wads of free cash to any cunts claiming "electricity hardship".
While the gubmint themselves asserts that 60% of NZ households are on low-user fixed rates.
Thus the majority are being responsible with electricity usage, whereas the minority 40% are not being responsible and undoubtedly also includes more than merely households only, but commercial, industrial & other high-use clients too.
(*they've obviously neglected to clarify this though)
Therefore according to gubmint "logic", apparently the responsible 60% of households on fixed low-use rates who maintain using less than the maximum low-use threshold of 8000kwh annually, must also now be responsible for the 40% of irresponsible electricity users on standard rates, who use over the minimum standard use threshold of 8000kwh annually.
How tf does that even "logic"?Article cont...
“Removal of this regulation aims to make the system fairer and more equitable, but the transition may cause pressure in some households. This scheme is designed to ease that pressure, particularly at a time when cost-of-living pressures are high,” Abernethy said."
"Power companies are not expected to increase their profit from phasing out the low fixed charge. Abernethy said when the 5-year phase-out is complete, it’s estimated the variable charge – what you pay for the power you actually use – will be 36% lower than it would have been if the low fixed charge wasn't scrapped, helping offset the impact of the change."
The above was quoted from here:
$110 available from power companies as low-user charge goes up again
Low power users will see the fixed charge part of their bill go up for the third year in a row this month – but there is a payment available for those doing it tough as a result.
www.consumer.org.nz
These retards are virtue signaling that the estimated variable charge may end up being 36% lower for everyone.... while also claiming this would magically offset the impact of the change....yet they've completely failed to acknowledge that by 2026, all low-use fixed charges are guaranteed to increase by well over 200%-(from the 2022 rate)-for approximately 60% of all NZ households.Beyond that, I can't figure how the NZ gubmint came to the conclusion that the 40% standard usage minority is automatically comprised of the presumably majority of all low-income households while the 60% low-usage majority of all households somehow aren't.
I mean the claimed assumption is just fuckin' moronic because (a) they've literally pulled it out of their fat arses without any proof at all, and (b) its far more likely most low-income households–out of basic necessity–would be actively minimizing electricity consumption and therefore also low-use households.
From my pov this nonsense is typical stealth communist societal subversion crap.
Part of the early phase were societal cohesion is erroded away by imposing dumb ass "fair, equity" bollocks wherein everyone who's responsible for their shit is suddenly forced to carry the burdens of all the irresponsible fucks along with shameless corporations burdens too.
Am I wrong?
everything NZers post or do online is shared between Google, the NZ gubmint....& whichever major NZ utility companies we're stuck with.
A few hundred years ago the hobbits were everywhere here.
I think, as of a few years ago, there was only one remaining full blooded hobbit. They called themselves Moriori and they definitely weren't Māoris. There's been interbreeding of course.
A lot of people don't realize the tremendous influences memetics can yield, or that occultic symbology is a form of memetic or that the empty spaces within and around occult symbolism can yield far more information than the symbols.
