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Power Games: Who’s driving high power bills? (www.climatecouncil.org.au)

submitted 2 days ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to c/australia@aussie.zone

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Power bills have become a growing source of stress for Aussie families and businesses. Many families are forced to make impossible choices: three in 10 parents are struggling to afford basics like food, electricity and insurance. Government rebates provided some relief, but this was only a band-aid solution.

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[–] MisterFrog@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Capitalism is the reason.

Price stability only exists in a world where we nationalised energy infrastructure.

How will we pay for [edit: constructing] it? Wow, tax. Wow. What a novel idea. Maybe we'll actually get paid for our natural resources. What an idea.

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Tax is just everyone subsidising the power usage of the big users. People should pay for what they use, so it incentivises using less power.

[–] MisterFrog@aussie.zone 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Sorry, I should have been clearer. People should still pay for the electricity, but at the very least the transmission and most of the generation should be publically owned and provided at cost

And energy retailers like some states have are so dumb. "Shopping around' for electricity when they're just slightly repacking the rate the transmission company sets is so stupid.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

We don’t even need to pay tax for it. If you take the capitalism out of it and create a government monopoly; we still pay for the service, and it gets put towards funding the service.

Take out the Executive Salaries and other unnecessary overheads and it is much more cost effective.