So if they are making profit then it is well and good. Otherwise they will just change the things in their favour.

So be it – power generation or anything else they will manipulate it to favour them.

Robin Hood would have been out of work in Maltese Nottingham.

Nein out ten, perhaps?

Never underestimate the generosity of the Maltese taxpayer, Baxxter. The Labour government never does.

During these last 4 months, international oil prices plummeted by more than 20%, and they are still falling.

Meanwhile, the price of LNG went up by about 8%, and is still rising.

Malta also needs to add the huge problems of transporting, storing, and handling of bulk LNG.

Then, to boot, we have a dishonest prime minister, making the decisions.

This is bad news indeed for all of us. This new gas power station dumped on us by Joseph Muscat is looking very much like the Marsa Shipbuilding dumped on us by Mintoff, only so much more costly in every way.

Amateurs?

Thieves.

This is not a blunder.

This is a national disaster of the first magnitude.

This is sheer madness.

It’s as sunny as ever, so I’m still wearing my straw boater, so I should be thinking positively. However, it has my Heidelberg Studenenverbintung ribbon, so I also think analytically, ach ja.

Your solution would cut everyone’s profits by at least one half. China would have to go through the extra expense of converting their power station, plus the extra expense of using gas, when oil is getting cheaper.

Electrogas would be reduced to a mere middleman, and would be at the mercy of the prices set by their supplier (China), and also at the mercy of the Maltese government who would set prices at the consumer end (ghax ahna weghdna li nrahhsu d-dawl, wouldn’t you know).

So, full marks for effort and ingenuity, Ciccio, and for your lovely hats. But nein. Not six. Nein.

Italians have just the term for Muscat and co.; BRA – braccia rubate all’agricoltura, or better, misplaced peasants.