Why don't Labour tell the truth about the power prices, if you look back to 1970 we paid $25 per month for power, from a monthly wage of $224, we had just moved into a new all electric home, this was about 10% of my monthly pay.
The old house had open fires and a chip heater to heat the water, so this meant our power bill was around $10, more per month. This is what has happend in every home in NZ we are using far more power than ever before, in the 60s the power board, when reticulating a new sub-division allowed 3KVA per house in the 70s it went to 5kva and in the 80s to 7kva. I would say that it would be close to 10 to 12 now, so if you use more you pay more and that is why the bills are high.
Labour thinks it will stop the sale of the power companies but it won't, it will only do damage to the whole power industry.
If they want to help people on a low income why not remove the GST on their power bill and rates.

E.K.Mills, Tauranga.