Comments on: At least one person has woken up to the fact that the lower water and electricity tariffs are a scam because the eco-reduction has been removed https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/at-least-one-person-has-woken-up-to-the-fact-that-the-lower-water-and-electricity-tariffs-are-a-scam-because-the-eco-reduction-has-been-removed/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ommi ma https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/at-least-one-person-has-woken-up-to-the-fact-that-the-lower-water-and-electricity-tariffs-are-a-scam-because-the-eco-reduction-has-been-removed/#comment-2079707 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:47:51 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=48240#comment-2079707 In reply to RamDeb.

The meter reader did come and read the meter but I still have no eco reduction.

]]> By: anthony abela https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/at-least-one-person-has-woken-up-to-the-fact-that-the-lower-water-and-electricity-tariffs-are-a-scam-because-the-eco-reduction-has-been-removed/#comment-2077487 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:33:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=48240#comment-2077487 Preciz kif kieteb ‘Qeghdin Sew’ 1st June @ 1.26am – Hassejt li jien nghati il-kontribut tieghi ghall-ewwel darba.

X’naghmlu? Pacenzja, nikkonsultaw il-meter reading kuljum daqs kemm kieku kienet il-budget tal-flus li nonfqu kull xahar u naghmlu dan fuq bazi ta’ 45 gurnata.

Jekk naraw li ser naqbzu l-allowance allura nitfu t-tv, nohorgu bil-qmis imkemmxa, ninsew il-hair-dryer u ninhaslu bl-ilma fietel.

U fl-ahhar nett ninvestu f-bozoz LEDs li jahdmu bir-rechargeable batteries.

Ix-xemx nuzawha biex niccargjawhom–u bil-lejl xalata ta’ dawl b’xejn.

Fl-ahhar ta’ dan l-ezercizzju inkantaw Viva Malta Taghna Lkoll. Sewwa qal xi hadd maghruf: Gahan Malti. Ma haqniex ahjar, KWAZI kull stratum tal-populazzjoni ta’ dawn il-gzejjer.

]]> By: N Zahra https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/at-least-one-person-has-woken-up-to-the-fact-that-the-lower-water-and-electricity-tariffs-are-a-scam-because-the-eco-reduction-has-been-removed/#comment-2076044 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 06:42:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=48240#comment-2076044 That’s the way they have always calculated the eco-reduction.

I had this argument two years ago. I agree that mathematically it does not hold water.

They should state that the eco-reduction is worked out on a monthly basis instead of an annual one.

]]> By: Amanda https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/at-least-one-person-has-woken-up-to-the-fact-that-the-lower-water-and-electricity-tariffs-are-a-scam-because-the-eco-reduction-has-been-removed/#comment-2073415 Sun, 01 Jun 2014 23:03:26 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=48240#comment-2073415 It’s true, it is a scam. After thoroughly checking our energy bill during the deduction (so called) it turned out to be one of the highest bills we’ve ever received.

We were devastated with this result, because we’re always careful with electricity and water. So I cannot understand why a rise instead of the opposite?

]]> By: Martin Felice https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/at-least-one-person-has-woken-up-to-the-fact-that-the-lower-water-and-electricity-tariffs-are-a-scam-because-the-eco-reduction-has-been-removed/#comment-2073102 Sun, 01 Jun 2014 22:17:22 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=48240#comment-2073102 In reply to Malta taghna lkoll.

Int il-veru tuba u injorant tal-prima klassi.

]]> By: Gahan https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/at-least-one-person-has-woken-up-to-the-fact-that-the-lower-water-and-electricity-tariffs-are-a-scam-because-the-eco-reduction-has-been-removed/#comment-2072619 Sun, 01 Jun 2014 21:03:12 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=48240#comment-2072619 Jien għad irrid nirċievi l-kont, imma ħabib tiegħi Laburist ġie maħruq ix-xogħol għax irċieva kont ta’ €146 meta s-soltu kien ikun ta’ €120.

Qalli li hemm xi Nazzjonalist li qed jagħmel il-bsaten fir-roti lil-gvern.

Issa fhimt li neħħielu l-eko-riduzzjoni. Naħseb xorta jivvutalu lil Joseph.

]]> By: RamDeb https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/at-least-one-person-has-woken-up-to-the-fact-that-the-lower-water-and-electricity-tariffs-are-a-scam-because-the-eco-reduction-has-been-removed/#comment-2070107 Sun, 01 Jun 2014 14:08:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=48240#comment-2070107 You will get zero eco-reduction if you haven’t given them a meter reading and obviously the meter reader did not have access to read the meter.

]]> By: nistaqsi https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/at-least-one-person-has-woken-up-to-the-fact-that-the-lower-water-and-electricity-tariffs-are-a-scam-because-the-eco-reduction-has-been-removed/#comment-2070065 Sun, 01 Jun 2014 14:01:31 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=48240#comment-2070065 In reply to Malta taghna lkoll.

Milli qed tghid jidher li vera m’ ahna ser niffrankaw xejn. Basta qaluli li ser niffranfa 30 fil-mija.

]]> By: Matthew S https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/at-least-one-person-has-woken-up-to-the-fact-that-the-lower-water-and-electricity-tariffs-are-a-scam-because-the-eco-reduction-has-been-removed/#comment-2069624 Sun, 01 Jun 2014 12:46:01 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=48240#comment-2069624 Meanwhile, in the UK, the idea of variable energy prices facilitated by smart-meters gains traction.

When the Nationalist Party came up with the same idea before the election, Labour told us that we won’t have time for sex because we’ll be doing the washing.

Labour, as usual, pandered to people’s basest instincts. Most people don’t want to hear about variable prices, smart-meters or eco-reductions. What they want to hear is b’xejn or irħas.

One of the Nationalist Party’s problems is communicating such sophisticated ideas in an appealing way to a populace who either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care.

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21602724-smart-meters-promise-another-reason-resent-energy-firms-remote-controls

]]> By: Qeghdin Sew https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/at-least-one-person-has-woken-up-to-the-fact-that-the-lower-water-and-electricity-tariffs-are-a-scam-because-the-eco-reduction-has-been-removed/#comment-2069464 Sun, 01 Jun 2014 12:22:40 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=48240#comment-2069464 In reply to Patricia Graham.

Those are not errors in the billing procedure. They are deliberate business rules that were codified in the billing system.

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