One has to wonder what the Tauranga electorate thinks about when they vote. We have a council that seems to only have three skills: how to waste money, how to spend money recklessly and build up debt at an alarming rate.

I refer to council because Cambridge Rd has been ripped up and resurfaced twice in two years, and here they go again ripping up Beaumaris Blvd for the second time in two years - there's no need for it. If there's a need then someone did a rotten job a year or so ago.

We have an MP who is the Energy and Resources Minister and I haven't heard a peep out of him regarding why in Tauranga and surrounding districts we have to pay 15 per cent more for electricity and 30 per cent more household gas supply than other districts.

One has to wonder why people voted in a man who has done little or nothing for Tauranga.

Let's hope the electorate get their thinking caps on next time round

Alistair Bourne, Bethlehem.