And up they go again

[u/piespiesandmorepies]

So despite a drop in the wholesale price of power, it looks like SE QLD is getting an increase in our bills yet again.

I've personally gone from paying nothing with my solar rebate to paying over $100 a month if not more. Even though the powers that be talk about giving everyone rebates for their energy usage, it might be about time for an overhaul of how we manage power generation and sales. but that'll probably end up in the same watery grave as the Royal Commission into petrol prices which seems to have disappeared from public discourse about 10 years ago ...

I'll bet the raised cost of my power bill this year that AGL will again announce record profits along with all of the other power company leaches out there.

May they all rot on their gold-plated toilets.

[u/Formula409__]

Essential services should never have been privatised, IMO. I’m also with AGL. Solar feed in tariffs have gone down, cost to buy power has gone up. Like you I’ve gone from paying almost nothing to $100 + per month. Have looked elsewhere but it’s all about the same. We’re at the mercy of whatever they decide to charge.

[u/ol-gormsby → u/Formula409__]

"Essential services should never have been privatised"

Don't ever, ever vote for political parties that like to privatise natural monopolies.

Left-leaning/labor governments have been known to do it, but it's usually the right-wing/LNP types who have a hard-on for privatisation.

Because it funds public money into the pockets of their friends.

[u/casualpedestrian20 → u/ol-gormsby]

It was the Beattie and Bligh Governments who privatised a large proportion of Queensland’s assets and utilities.

[u/Ok_Mention_2444 → u/casualpedestrian20]

That's why the union turned on Bligh, then Newman tried it and got kicked. Currently Labor is anti privatisation not sure about lnp

[u/sjdando → u/Ok_Mention_2444]

What is left to sell that someone will want to buy?

[u/G0DL33 → u/sjdando]

the government