The price of electricity is going up in a couple of weeks. By an
AVERAGE of 12%! So please don't think that it is ONLY 12% okay? As
with every announcement of this nature it is accompanied by great
comedy in the newspapers and from the mouths of our elected
representatives although we have not yet been told to change our
lifestyle again. Not yet la.
Wait...wait...wait...actually got already.
The front page of The Sun today..."the more you use, the more you pay."
Translation: Change your lifestyle la.
Wait, there's more. On page 4 of the NST today the Energy, Water and
Communications Minister was quoted as saying, "….low-income consumers
won't be affected." Great news? Not really.
What is means is, "If you are quite happy to remain in that shit hole
you will not be affected by the new tariffs."
With so much comedy in the news today I had to buy all 3 English
language papers, The Sun, The Star and The New Straits Times today.
Didn't want to miss out.
The editor of The Star today ought to audition as a comedian I think.
The headline today read, "Watts Up!". Very punny. Hahahahaha...can die
laughing with the ceiling fan on la. I
It is reported in all the papers I bought that TNB's rates increase is
not going to affect about 60% of Malaysian households whose monthly
electricity bill is below RM43.60! Yippee!
But wait a minute...how is it not going to affect these people when
prices of everything else will go up too? Eventually.
The LRT runs on electricity, right? Food in markets and supermarkets
have to be kept fresh with refrigeration and that takes electricity,
right? Cinemas, which is one of the few forms of entertainment that
the same 60% of the population can enjoy on a day out with the family,
uses electricity, right? Are we going to be given an assurance that
prices of everything else, that Malaysians need to live with a quality
of life that is even slightly worthy of a country that we are
constantly told is better than Ghana, is not going to increase
proportionately? Yes, I know. In a few days time there will come the
usual warnings by this Yang Berhormat's and that Yang Berbahagia's to
traders and manufacturers that they should not increase prices
unreasonably so as not to burden the rakyat. Blah...blah...blah. Press
conferences will be organised. Heads will nod in agreement with the
YB's pronouncements. And then..."Errr...When do we announce the price
increase of our goods and services ah?"
TNB took out a double-paged advertorial in all 3 English language
newspapers today to explain the tariffs increase and to advise
consumers on methods to reduce consumption. Use low energy light bulbs
they say. Because they consume less electricity. Oh thank you for that
revelation. Do these guys even know how much those low energy bulbs
cost?
And this is my favorite of their 'suggestions'. Set air-conditioners
to between 25 and 26 degrees Celsius. Surely they are sticking their
tongues out at us when they say that. Have they ever sat or worked in
an enclosed room where the temperature is 26 degrees Celsius? Might as
well tell us to shut off the air-con and go sit next to a fire.
Oh yes. I don't know if this is tragic or side splittingly funny. TNB
is going to realise RM1.5 billion in revenue with this price hike. But
TNB plans to spend RM40 billion in the next 5 years to upgrade and
improve their electricity supply system. So where is the rest of the
billions going to come from? No prizes for making the right guess.
Maybe somebody (Pah Lah should do this since he seems to have the
ability to make so much sense out of totally senseless stuff around
here) should answer this question. Why and how did a company like TNB
who have been in operation for decades get itself into this shitty
situation? With its long history shouldn't it have developed and
improved enough to keep up with demand in the 21st century? Or was
somebody sleeping on the job?
Which reminds me…every time I have seen TNB people at work it happens
like this…one guy is sitting in the TNB truck smoking a cigarette. One
guy is up on a ladder doing something apparently useful. And 4 other
guys are standing at the foot of the ladder looking around. Small
thing? Sure it is. But maybe that contributes to why you and I are
paying more for power today. Bottom of ladder stand-abouts don't come
cheap I am told.
And then as if to make us even more pissed off YB Lim Keng Yaik then
says that TNB must improve its service. You mean their service has
been not up to mark? That might mean that we are paying for their
mistakes, right? So, why should we?
The YB also said that TNB must commit to a service level agreement
which, if it fails to live up to that, it will have to compensate
consumers in the form of rebates. Yeah right! That is SO un-Malaysian,
YB.
Okay, okay to be fair to Lim Keng Yaik and all the other YB's in the
government there must be some perfectly reasonable explanation for all
this mess. But as a poor working slob who is not too intelligently
savvy about economics, I feel that it is not being explained to me in
a way that I can understand. I'll be the first to admit that if I did
understand I would put my patriotic shoulder to pull my weight in the
same direction as everybody else. Otherwise I just feel I want to
string up those TNB flers on the nearest lamp post.
Okay, okay I digress from the funny stuff in today's papers. Turn to
page 6 of the NST today. There those TNB flers are teaching you "How
to POWER up your life and save ENERGY". Roughly translated it means
"since you're F**Ked we'd like to rub your nose in the shit a bit
more". They are saying …
"Use compact flourescent light bulbs"!!!!!!
"Replace porch lights with motion sensor lights or light sensor bulbs"!!!!!!
"LCD/plasma TV sets use less energy than older models"!!!!!!
So are they saying to us that there are ways of reducing our spending
on power? Sure. Except that we have to spend loads of money FIRST
before the savings begin. Otherwise you join the rest in the
shit-holes and save right from the start. Your choice. Hey! We're not
anything if we're not democratic.
Okay lah. After all that ranting I guess we should all be glad that
our electricity tariffs are the cheapest in the region except for
Indonesia. And F**K! we're having a way better life than those losers
in Ghana. So…….
RELEK AH, BRUDDER!
A fellow blogger called me this morning and requested that I
compliment the PR guys handling all these announcements of the
electricity tariff increase. Good job guys. Great timing. When the
World Cup starts in a couple of weeks nobody will remember or care too
much about TNB. And when the World Cup fever ends after a month all
Malaysians will go back to life in Bolehland which will still be
better than Ghana. |
At 2:15 PM,
I'm sure that given enough time, electricity will become a "sensitive issue" that we must all avoid discussing to ensure racial and religious harmony in fair old Malaysia.
Better not protest about it, they blasted some protesters on Sunday with water cannons around KLCC. See what happens when we don't live in harmony. And remember not to hug in public, avoid hell and save the world all at the same time.
At 1:50 AM,
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