electricity tariff up… life-style must change?

since so many bloggers had blog on this, i’d better blog on it too. ok call me copy-cat, devoid of ideas or merely love to rant. haha.

oh yeah, electricity tariff increase! by 12%! but hey, good news for me! why? our house electricity bill is usually less than RM40 – so no increase for us. wahh! so kind of the energy, water and communication minister, lim keng yaik to think of us lower income group people?

ahh… but the increase will affect those who are in business, like restaurants, hotels, food courts, hospitals and so on. some of these businesses are patronised by those whose ‘electricity bill is lower than RM43.60’ (or in other words, those who are not affected by the increase). what if these business people said ah, electircity increase so i must increase my price/fee… then those who patronised their businesses will be affected! and here we have our EWC minister telling us we won’t be affected.

so what to do? change our lifestyle? like what our DPM asked us to do so when petrol price hike was announced? goodness me! i already lower income, how to change lifestyle? upper income people can change lifestyle to become middle income people but lower income people?? tsk, tsk, should i apply to be on welfare?

btw, when you read the report from the star paper, did you noticed this:

Even with the 12% tariff increase, he said, Malaysia still had the cheapest electricity in the region with the exception of Indonesia.

now, ain’t that familiar or what. it made me so mad to read this. why is it they always like to compare? if i remember correctly, during the petrol hike, a person in authority commented too that our petrol prices are cheaper than ___ (forgot). ah yes, i remember the postage increase too, a postal officer had said something like “our postage rate is one of the cheapest in asia (or somewhere… sorry so long time forgot all places mentioned). this kind of comparision to justify their increase is very irritating, isn’t it?

oh dear me, i’m right now on the computer while the TV is on without nobody watching. “waste electricity lah, girl!”. so excuse me, while i go switch off the TV. in the meantime. you too might want some tips on how to jimatkan elektrik, so surf over to NST for some tips. oh, and if you are here, means you are using a computer, so you might want to know too.