DO you remember in 1989 when the Liberal National Party's Nick Greiner-led government started the privatisation of electricity?
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Remember how he said it would lower the costs of electricity?
Have you been listening to LNP's members say how they have taken a big stick to electricity providers to force them to keep our electricity prices down? What bull dust.
I only ran my reverse-cycle airconditioning for a few hours in the mid-to-late afternoon ...
I just received my summer electricity bill and for 89 days I was billed over $800. It will 'only' costs me $691 if I pay by the 22nd of this month. Oh joy.
Living off of an aged pension and being afraid of a high electricity bill I only ran my reverse-cycle airconditioning for a few hours in the mid-to-late afternoon, just when the most heat was the most unbearable.
Imagine if I had tried to keep comfortable throughout the day?
State and federal elections are coming up and I am going to remember what the LNP state and federal members promised and what they actually delivered.
Henry Spirek
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