Cost of Living
This is a rant I should have had a long time ago, I’m not happy for many reasons and here they are… by the way, I’m not always the most informed of people so feel free to point out inaccuracies in the following…
It all started with the announcement of a 62% rise in electricity over 3 years last December. I was appalled at this, 62% is a bloody lot. So I’m thinking how the heck am I going to afford that!! My energy bill can currently be over $300 a quarter and that is hard enough to find, let alone that plus 62% which would be $486 and sometimes my bill is a fair way over the $300 mark.
I try and cut back where I can on electricity but right now I live in a house I can afford which means that I live in a much older house that’s not really great at retaining heat and I have 2 kids. The so that my kids don’t get sick I need to keep them warm at night which means running heaters in both their rooms for the entire night. (I chose the most energy efficient heaters we could afford, but still its a lot of electricity…)
So I started to thnk that I might start to struggle to meet bills a little more than normal… and then I had a thought… what about all the families out there with less income then our household?? living in houses similar or worst then ours with higher heating bills. Even if they don’t have higher heating bills, so what, whatever their electricity bill is now it will increase by 62%. Stupid.
They don’t have money to go and change appliances to versions that run on other cheaper sources or are more energy efficient.
I don’t know, maybe I missing something, but when it comes down to it, how can you increase a necessity like that by so much?! And then not increase the cost of living scale or whatever it is that increases peoples wages.
Do I also have to mention how Dubbo wants to increase the cost of water by a massive percentage as well, or the way that in 2008 they weren’t allowed to raise rates which was the first time since 2002 that there hadn’t been a rate rise!!
And they want to attract people to country towns…
Another old rant worth bringing up now is the way that they ask us to cut back on resources then increase the cost of those rescources as we aren’t using enough…
I’d like to make a suggestion, how about the use of a little forward planning… If you are going to ask us to use less of something then think about how that will effect the states/country’s income and work out what you will do to combat that, be creative too, don’t just hit the same suckers who are already living tight, or living in debt actually, just because it’s basically the easiest option.
I’m not always the best at putting words to paper, but I hope this has been clear enough.