How will the power price increases affect you?

[Butterfly Child]

ohh gawwd! i dont know how ill go.. moneys tight enough as it is didnt think it could get any tighter its just astronomical the cost of living

[AliBaby]

We cant afford our bills at the moment either. I think I have had quite a number of boo hoo threads on our electricity bill.

We dont run a pool or use a dishwasher or dryer, we dont have ducted air, rarely use a/c and still our bills are ridiculously expensive.

Very scary to think about the future.

[The[cookie]Doctor]

I will probably have to learn some new vegetarian meals I'd say It's so hard not using the dryer here in winter too... and the nappies... ohhhh all that money i was saving on nappies by not buying sposies but im hardly going to be able to afford washing and drying them!! I need to teach DF to be more power conscious... he turns the pc on first thing and then the xbox and wont turn one off if playing the other etc... the pc i understand as its our music source but the xbox will have been on for 12hrs when i cmoe home somedays. makes my blood boil.

[maz]

is electricity the only thing going up then? im worried that gas will follow as it usually does then water
I might start putting an extra $10 a fortnight into my electricity account to soften the blow a bit

[Trillian]

As far as I know Maz it is only the power. We don't have gas so I don't know if that industry will be affected in the same way as eletricity or not.

[maz]

thankshon. im screwedlike you...friggen country power!!!!!

[Trillian]

Thanks Kim Maz it sucks bigtime. We were offered a 'contract' with them about 2yrs ago now with a fixed price and it did work out cheaper than what we were paying at the time - not a lot- just a few cents cheaper and it was a 2 or 3 yr contract (can't remember how long for now) and the buggers canned it after only one year with no explanation, but I have a feeling now that it was a cleverly orchestrated move by them because not long after that power just shot up in price and I think they wanted all their customers off their contracts so they could legally charge us the higher price. And it does suck too that we don't have a choice in who we get our electricity from, and they have the lions share of customers and they are charging more and the increases will be signifcantly higher than their competitors.

[Floweryfields]

Girls looks like we'll all be soon back to the 1940's - candles, kero fridges and lamps and no BB to entertain our evenings!

[Liviam]

I had no idea about this but now am absolutely *****ty my pants. Like heaps of yo on here we struggle to pay our bill at the moment. Guess we are going to turn everything possible off at the power point, no second drinks fridge, use lamps instead of lights and power saving globes everywhere.
How can they justify such a huge jump in cost with no alternative available to us??

[*TripleJ*]

we will be sitting in the dark with no computer no net no BB no tv no washing maching basically we would get cut off lucky i just got myself a job

[~Raven~]

Might be a good time to revolt and start using candles and only essentials

[LimeSlice]

They justify it by trying to make you use alternatives and force the government to use more renewable sources.

The fact of the matter is that this increase will force everyone to look at how and when they udse energy and push them to seek out alternatives. That will only be a good thing

[Astrid]

DH is in the water industry and there is also talk of water going up, especially in those areas that are much less than state averages. So glad are not with a water board and deal with our own water.

[Floweryfields]

They justify it by trying to make you use alternatives and force the government to use more renewable sources.

The fact of the matter is that this increase will force everyone to look at how and when they udse energy and push them to seek out alternatives. That will only be a good thing

But won't that just bite themselves in the bum - I mean the power companies make money by providing power, if they put the prices up so high that everyone extememly cuts back, then they don't make enough money and they put the prices up again. Sounds like a very vicious cycle to me.