29-04-2025, 11:04 AM
Good morning - bit of a cloudy start but I am sure it is going to burn off before lunch time .Not in a hurry to get up have been away for 17 days and I must say it’s great to be back in my own bed
The highest power bill I received last winter was $120 - it normally sits around $100. I run my heat pump when necessary both in the summer and winter - Running it on 18 takes the chill off the air in this old house but isn’t a cloistering heat - I have a lung condition thanks to polio and so my children remind me constantly when it’s cold to turn the AC on - same in the summer keeping the house comfortable for my lungs is a necessity .The government gets 52% of power company profits so when the prompt payment discounts were taken off our food manufacturers an$ growers and retailers there was a huge spike in food costs plus the govt collected more GST - Infometrics did some research on the increase in food costs that the removal of the power rebates cost at the checkout - bread went up 11c a loaf then another 8c for those cardboard tags on a plastic bag - this extra revenue for the power companies was supposed to be used to increase the capacity to produce by the power companies to negate the need to import coal - but the coal imports are higher than ever while we pay more for food and we lost our low user rebates - the beneficiaries of the 2022 restructure of the power sector were the govt and the overseas owners of the remaining shareholding by mostly overseas owners
While I am on the cost of food at the checkout - the stats dept and Infometrics reported Fonterra increased their prices they charged the supermarkets by 69% over the last 12 months - but supermarkets are so often blamed for the cost of butter and cheese - meat companies increased their prices to the supermarket by 72% - that’s why there is no rush for other companies to come here .AC Neilsen last week produced some research bought a virtual trolley of the most regular products bought by a kiwi family - PaknSave were $93.00 - Aldi ,Tesco in the UK ,Coles and WW in OZ were all at least $10 more expensive than PaknSave after currency adjustments .By the way Fonterra have announced another 8% increase in May but the supermarkets will make the headlines
Rant over Hunni !!
The highest power bill I received last winter was $120 - it normally sits around $100. I run my heat pump when necessary both in the summer and winter - Running it on 18 takes the chill off the air in this old house but isn’t a cloistering heat - I have a lung condition thanks to polio and so my children remind me constantly when it’s cold to turn the AC on - same in the summer keeping the house comfortable for my lungs is a necessity .The government gets 52% of power company profits so when the prompt payment discounts were taken off our food manufacturers an$ growers and retailers there was a huge spike in food costs plus the govt collected more GST - Infometrics did some research on the increase in food costs that the removal of the power rebates cost at the checkout - bread went up 11c a loaf then another 8c for those cardboard tags on a plastic bag - this extra revenue for the power companies was supposed to be used to increase the capacity to produce by the power companies to negate the need to import coal - but the coal imports are higher than ever while we pay more for food and we lost our low user rebates - the beneficiaries of the 2022 restructure of the power sector were the govt and the overseas owners of the remaining shareholding by mostly overseas owners
While I am on the cost of food at the checkout - the stats dept and Infometrics reported Fonterra increased their prices they charged the supermarkets by 69% over the last 12 months - but supermarkets are so often blamed for the cost of butter and cheese - meat companies increased their prices to the supermarket by 72% - that’s why there is no rush for other companies to come here .AC Neilsen last week produced some research bought a virtual trolley of the most regular products bought by a kiwi family - PaknSave were $93.00 - Aldi ,Tesco in the UK ,Coles and WW in OZ were all at least $10 more expensive than PaknSave after currency adjustments .By the way Fonterra have announced another 8% increase in May but the supermarkets will make the headlines
Rant over Hunni !!