So you don't have enough electricity to go around, yet you want people to drive electric cars? The stupidity and incompetence of the Australian Government is unbelievable.
That's literally your job as a citizen. Do they not teach Australians this? The government is not benevolent. They work against you, and it's your job to make sure they're working for you. They're using your money!
@@mikesmith-po8nd Reagan said, the 9 scariest words you will ever hear are, "We're from the government and we're here to help". Too many sheep in Australia, problem number one. Too many WEF in our parliament, problem number two.
A couple of years ago the idea that these new "smart metres" would mean that someone else could control your electricity use was considered a "conspiracy theory". Hmmmm...
@@elusivecamel How about we have access to the cheap and abundant electricity that we are capable of producing? Oh, that would mean pretending that Australia can help save the world from "climate change". Sending all our fuel overseas is ok though. Mad.
They already own everyone. Anyone who puts their money in a bank are now unsecured creditors. They can come take your money as 'bail in' whenever there is a slight hiccup in the market.
They will be able to stop us spending… it’s already happening, I had a large purchase be declined because the bank remotely stopped it because they didn’t agree with the yeabsaction
They kind of already do they're all privately owned. ( Or most of ) Which I don't think most people realise - I didn't untill recently. But you're 100% correct.
How. Every politician in every party is out for themselves. The Democrats gave us GST. The Greens Bush fires and the Liberals and Labor have sent us into wars and raised the cost of living so we can’t afford heat or air con. We have to ration everything. Gas in Victoria is ridiculously expensive. The Victorian government will not allow new houses to have gas. Only electricity which is historically unreliable. Why? Because they’re selling our gas overseas and making a fortune. To hell with ordinary Victorians. So how do you vote out these creeps when all that’s on offer is more creeps.
Oh, you mean back when the government owned both the power generation and power distribution systems? Back before temperatures skyrocketed and millions more airconditioners were installed across the state? And back when there were less than 2.5million people living in the state? Yeah, low-population socialism was much better.
"What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?... In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" - Maurice Strong (First Director of the United Nations Environment Program)
You have no idea, no idea at all just how close to the wind Queensland used to run under the Petersen government. Seriously, what we got up to left other states gasping. It's really only that we had ripple controllers on HWS that prevented the lights going out on several occasions.
@@speedymccreedy8785 Ignorance is bliss I guess. The Uniparty, not just green and labour, are totally corrupted by WEF. Our parliament is loaded with them. Wake up soon.
@@paulmarshall248 it's been given away mate. When politicians make bad deals, we all lose. But they get a damn good job when they retire from politics, so that's good I guess. 😯
@@ChromecastM8 The LNP weren't the ones who went all in with renewables. If you were running a gas or coal-fired plant, would you be investing and spending big dollars on them to ensure longevity and reliability when the government has made it abundantly clear they want these plants gone?
They don't turn it off. If you have a controllable AC they adjust the maximum cooling. If you have it on a ridiculous 18c or 20c they bump it up to a more reasonable 24c or 25c. EDIT: I don't know exactly what they do with it, but they do reduce the power consumption to ease the network. This can only be done on an AC unit that has this feature and for which you would have received a rebate for installing the feature.
And they want us to buy electric cars, what a joke, not enough power for a/c so let's use more to charge our cars. 😂😂😂 Governments in Australia are a joke.
The idea is that you would use your car as a power wall for the grid. So your car will go dead to cool/heat your home to put less stress on the grid. At the same time, they will make gas, kerosene and petrol illegal.
Here in Victoria, we just have blackouts. We had a four hour blackout, on a hot day, just before Christmas. This new Global Warming Religion is dangerous.
It’s coming to something like that. Vote wrong, think wrong, spend wrong and punitive action will be taken to restrict what you can do. Just wait until they force cashless purchasing and introduce the digital dollar. Then watch the fun as they control what you can spend money on.
@@jeffmoodie6144 Or watch what happens if we get a grid down event (lack of supply, solar flare, etc) as digital will be utterly useless with no coms/internet.
@@lloydsingline340 Stop voting for them. Our parliament is putrid with WEF. They control every function of the Uniparty. Check out the publicly listed members and you'll see, they don't have Australia's best interests at heart. Nothing changes until the WEF is gone from our parliament. It's that simple.
We live directly below a so called wind farm in Northern NSW, and 4 kms from a large solar panel farm. We rent the house on a cattle farm, we have had our hot water power reduced a couple of times, NO hot water for 2 days. Yesterday (30th Dec 2024) our air con wasn't cooling very well on a very hot day. This is not the first time we have had our power reduced. One time we were way for 10 days, my wife had an operation. My wife was looking forward to hot shower and air con after a 6 hour drive from hospital. We came home and just warm water. We received an email from power provider the next day saying we used to much power over the last 2 weeks and it was our hot water, so for the next 2 days no hot water it was just warm. BUT we were away!! Then less than a week later we received another email saying we used to much power and it was the air con. BUT apart from the first day home we never used the air con. So again reduced power. And lately (6-8 weeks ) our oven and hot plates are not heating up properly we even had the elements replaced to no avail. They don't have enough power but keep spending our money on stupid windmills and panels for what, so we can have reduced power. When we first move in to the house 3 years ago they replaced the smart metre and they hit us up $1400 on top of $200-$300 power bill. Some of what we were charged for we hadn't even started to rent the house.
There is no such thing as being put on reduced power. The grid doesn't work like that. You can't just reduce the voltage for one customer when you choose to. Potentially you could disconnect a complete circuit like the hot water, so it went on for less hours than necessary, but hot plates not getting enough power? Not a thing that can be targeted at one house, and turned on and off.
@@willholder9453 I'm afraid that you, and the "bloke in Queensland" have some confusion about how the grid, and physics, work. The only practical way to reduce the power used by a stove, is if the stove is smart enough to talk to the smart electricity system and, and the stove agrees to use less power and so turns itself down. To alter the voltage of the power supply the house runs on a variable variable transformer, or inverter is required, and that doesn't fit in your smart meter. To do that would mean an inverter fitted in your house, or a separate variable transformer on a pole for each individual house.
Question: If people can operate their home appliances remotely with their phones, can power companies operate power to your home with smart metre technology??
Seems like ever since ownership of fire arms was banned in Australia, the government has obtained absolute control over its citizens, very tragic indeed
Told my electricity supplier to shove their smart meter where the sun doesn't shine. Had a feeling this would happen. Disgusting how the consumer is cheated with lies.
It's not the meters doing this. It's smart airconditioning controllers. The smart meters being used in my area have no relays inside them - I know because someone on RUclips disassembled one (can't remember if it was eevblog, big Clive or someone else). But I also read the manuals for these units when they first started appearing in town. Not the basic user manual. I read the installation manual and the fluffy brochures designed to get the power company to choose their products. Nowhere do any of them mention the ability to turn off power. If they did, they would mention the current it can break in the manuals and brochures.
I lived in a small city in the Southwest US where we got over 250 sunny days per year. The city decided to host an experiment with a solar farm on the decommissioned landfill. They built a 2 MW solar farm with a (too small) battery backup. They immediately found that electricity costs were not reduced as the cost of electricity is not just how much electricity you have to buy from utilities but also a function of the peak demand and the peak demand comes in the evening when solar production is low (or zero in the winter). The batteries weren't big enough and weren’t getting charged enough on monsoon (cloudy and rainy) afternoons to be able to run through the peak demand period. So what did they do? They added "smart" meters to buildings and homes where people volunteered to have their AC shut off when monsoon clouds built up in the afternoon. Unfortunately, my employer at the time volunteered the building I worked in. In the monsoon season (mid-summer), several times per week, the AC would go out for several hours and the building would get to the high 80s (30 C). Many people left early but I couldn't do my job from home and I just couldn't work in that kind of heat. Because of that, I quit my job and took a job in a building where I had control of a wall-mounted AC unit. My employer wouldn't admit that the experiment was a total failure and ended up losing a lot of good people.
And while you were sweltering to 'reduce your carbon footprint', China produced as much CO2 in a second that you'd reduced in a year and no western government wants to mention this.
Its not a smart meter doing this, its a ripple controller you install for the air conditioning. Its an opt in system, and people happily take the money.
Labor is a Failure. The FILTHY DISGUSTING DIVISIVE RACISTS PM, ELBOW, is so SELF ABSORBED HE DOESN'T CARE AND HATES WHITE TRUE BLUE HARD WORKING TAX PAYING AUSTRALIANS. THE LYING HYPOCRIT HASN'T WORKED A DAY IN HIS LIFE.
Yep, the fools didn't see & still don't see. Last couple years our electricity provider has been trying to persuade us to have a smart meter, we keep declining their offer, we've had to "opt-out" twice so far, as they lost the last "un-authorized to install" from us due to their software upgrade, yet strangely all other details carried over, last time they told us that "soon it will be mandatory anyway". Ha, no smart meter will be installed on our property, we have good reason & the right to say nuh. Those that don't understand roll their eyes & sigh, the day will come when we roll our eyes at them when they're complaining about bs control ... tried to warn 'em but they just won't see, fools (AuntieEt)
Wanted? Around here (Virginia, USA), they were required. There was no choice, just a notice in the mail, telling you approximately when they'd be coming to change out your meter. Don't want the new meter, that's fine, then you're no longer a customer with the only power company available.
This in a country that is the Number One exporter of Energy in the World. I repeat, Australia is the Number One exporter of Energy in the World. Am I missing something here?
Yes, you're missing a definition. US was the world's biggest exporter of energy in 2023. You need to define your terms. Germany for electricity, Saudi Arabia for oil, Australia for commodities that _produce_ energy. What rules are you going by?
Go up to Gladstone or Newcastle and wave goodbye to our beautiful coal leaving Australia to give the rest of the world what we should have. “Cheap power”
They also put the elctricity price through the roof while telling you we are giving you $1000 cost of living relief to hide it. - Do your bit to add to the supply, storage & generation. If Bundaberg can do it we can... 1. Buy Solar Panels 2. Buy a Solar Battery 3. Buy a backup diesel generator They turned off the electricity well all my stuff still works for the period it is turned off.
They are not ever stupid, they do what they do best, serve themselves and lobyst where the money flows from whilst mastering the art of deception & spin , public relations control. Look at how he spin this topic around from control.
We have been lied to since infancy. Democracy does not require politicians. As Abraham Lincoln defined democracy... "Government of the people, by the people and for the people". We did this a few months back, calling it a National Referendum and that worked just fine. The people have the right to formulate policy, draft legislation to their own consensus satisfaction, and then direct the executive wing of government to implement this. It ain't difficult and its easy to organise. Contrary to propaganda, it is not expensive and, in fact, is way cheaper than corrupt parliaments.
Several years ago we received the offer from our local electric company to install the new easy care system. The incentive was $250. We declined because we knew that this would be an issue. I’m in south central Texas, USA and people do die when there is no air conditioning. Before the state turns off your electricity, they should begin with stadiums and go from there. These policies have been created by politicians so that they can line their pockets. It’s a disgrace and immoral.
No, we only need cheap energy if we want to grow and prosper; that's not what our elites want for us. We're supposed to live like serfs: tied to our land, working between sunup and sundown, and never going anywhere.
@@laubknight in 10 - 15 years at the very earliest! planning, development, finding a suitable site, environmental studies, building infrastructure (roads, sewage, water etc), site preparation, reactor build, reactor testing, connecting to grid The average construction time for a nuclear power plant is around 7 years, but the total time can range from 10-15 years. The median construction time for reactors connected to the grid in 2023 was 121 months, or almost 11 years
Im in Victoria and many years ago I NEVER agreed to them installing a smart meter - in fact I left a letter in my meter box stating that I did NOT give permission to install. They did it anyway when I was out all day (and there was NO incentive payment offered!!!)They came back 3 times to install an antenna but I said NO and they went away. Im assuming without the antenna whey cannot access it remotely - I still get my power read in person.
Australia produces 554 short tons of coal each year, most of which is exported. Australian utilities could build a bunch of new coal power plants and solve their electricity supply problem. When you have that much coal relative to your population and electricity use, every other method of generating electricity is literally a solution looking for a problem. Pollution from burning coal can be limited by refining the bitumen out of the coal, which can create a lucrative chemical industry. And by installing scrubbers and eductors to catch fly ash and dust from the coal fire. For the carbon dioxide, plant life is the sequestration method and a higher CO2 content in the atmosphere makes the plants grow faster. But here is the dirty little secret: burning fossil fuels worldwide only adds about 4% to the overall production of carbon dioxide and plant photosynthesis uses most of that up. If there is climate change, it is a natural phenomenon that we can neither cause nor prevent. The Milankovitch cycles indicate that we are overdue for new ice age, which is being delayed somehow. So instead of killing people with heat stroke by turning off their air conditioning, how about building enough coal burning power plants to solve the problem? Even if that means China will have to buy more coal from Wyoming. Of course that means Australian voters have to stop believing the Climate Change Caused By Burning Fuel Hoax and stop voting for the grifters who sell it to you and make your energy more expensive than necessary. Here in the State of Washington, gasoline is down 40 cents per gallon just because we elected Trump! You need to elect an Australian Trump!
@@ezlow1065 Roger claimed we produce 554 short tons of coal each year. How is that well said? 550 tons wouldn't keep 1/4 of a glass factory running. And it's not every year, it varies greatly.
@@indiathylane2158 Trump isn't in office, he cannot affect anything yet. Oil isn't in the stock market, so it's not 'anticipation' for him affecting it's price either. Gas prices are determined by global events that impact supply and demand of oil. Supply is broadly the same, making slow changes as more infrastructure is built, and taking dives when wars impact that infrastructure or labor (wars in the oil fields of the middle east, or hurricanes hitting refineries in the gulf coast). Demand is largely the same, increasing slowly as more people get into cars, and only decreasing in events like the pandemic. The president has almost NO way to impact this apart from releasing oil reserves which has to be replenished, could backfire on is if attacked, and makes minimal difference anyway. Left or Right, gas prices are up in the air no matter who you voted for. But oil is trending upward in the long-term whether we like it or not, and we need that oil for things like plastic as well. Electric cars won't hurt you, indeed, we already have cars pushing past 3000 horsepower, it will be better in the long-run after an adjustment period, it's really not that bad. Do note, however, that Putin is part of OPEC+, and has reportedly been 'coercing' other members to raise prices (which Saudi Arabia has recently told him to pound sand); now I wonder why that would be?
Rationing your electricity, so that the government can use all that power to run Ai and all their lovely control systems watching you. And you pay for it.
Total control over all aspects of our lives, you can’t even get in your car and drive for a while to cool off. We don’t have aircon we use fans and going for a drive gets you out and cool.
Here in NSW we didnt get a 'rebate' & didnt get an option; we were told it was happening on a certain day and time, it was done, and we were told we would not be able to even have electricity without the smart meter (Mid Nth Coast of NSW)
Time of day the aircon peak qld in the wet cloud buildup in the afternoon then everyone gets home from work, late in the day theres draw peak and solar is weak outside of middle of the day when sun is high in the sky
And the solar tax? The reason they want your panels off the grid is so the solar generators can be supplying during the only time they can generate. Even though during those times often the wholesale cost is negative. Now why would they want to be supplying when they are getting charged to supply??? Cos they get subsidies. So their net is they get paid. Where do the subsidies come from? You. And me and every tax payer and green program charges on our elec bill, about 5c a kwh apparently are green program subsidies
@@davefoord1259 Ah so it's just when people are getting home, eh? Is that when they plug in their EV (which the government wants us all to have) and draw enormous amounts of power from the grid? I'm sure you're right that AC is also used around then, but by comparison the power needed for EV charging compared to AC is much greater. Are EV charging points also shut off, or only AC power?!
If you can avoid the tax by keeping your solar panels off the grid, and have them charge one of those huge-capacity PowerWall chargers that can act as household power, then I think it's a good deal: lower taxes and no electricity bill (other than the huge costs of buying and installing in the first place), and you get independence and self-sufficiency in exchange! Now, when they want you to connect your PowerWall to the grid so they can drain your electricity and charge you money to sell it back to you . . . take a f'n axe to your genitals, mate!
Due to the AC's being switched off remotely like this last year on an extremely hot day in 2024 January in Qld it caused all the ACs in the house to malfunction beyond repair and I have had to get the whole thing replaced. Very annoying as we suffered for no reason. More annoying as I have solar so the consumption of electricity in my house hold is minimal. How can we give these companies the power to do this! And the government won't do anything about it. as most of the government agencies are privatised and the government has washed its hands off any responsibility.
And WHO is the genius who let the gov. do that to her house?? WHO is the genius who spends her time watching nonsense and Karadshions garbage and did not heed our warnings when WE told you this was coming??! WHO is the tightwad who wanted to save a peasly $400 per YEAR? It's called selling the soul/1st born. WE WARNED YOU!
Throughout the developed world, voters are voluntarily surrendering their freedoms to far left governments in the belief that Big Government has their best interests. I used to sit as an advisor on numerous high-level government committees here in Canada. The disdain that politicians and upper-level bureaucrats was nauseating.
@@NihonKaikan Who's gonna tell him that the world is increasingly bowing to far-right authoritarian governments the past decade or two? And that nationalism, left, right, authoritarian and all these terms don't necessarily mean the same thing in other countries? Aren't the 'Liberal Democrats' in Japan far-right? Isn't 'nationalism' in Canada left-leaning? And what is 'labour' anyway? Is this just putting people in boxes so you don't have to hear what they actually say?
Can someone explain how someone else can dictate when we can or cannot use a device WE OWN in our own home? The world has gone insane. Please make it make sense!
Yes, and if the previous governments hadn’t sold the rights to that coal to China and blocked renewables, then this wouldn’t be happening. Jesus Australians are dumb.
I just got a 1500 dollar court fine for fighting the smart meter. I never got it in the end but it took me to verbally abuse the guy to stop working on it...
@@astormofwrenches5555 Nope more of them here now than before that event. Are you going to shoot someone for working on your meter? Enjoy shower time in the prison.
There is a small device in your Air Conditioning unit that allows the power company to turn off your cooling Function. The solution is simple call your local Air Cond mechanic and have the device removel.
You need to find a shifty one though. Most of them follow the book. However it could be integrated in the processor of the air conditioner control board. I am willing to bet that the system being used is IP over mains from the smart meter to the air conditioner controller. So removing a small circuit board may not be an option. The unit would have to be electronically hacked or some hobbyist makes a jammer that can be put on the mains.
It is called peaksmart in Queensland and it is a scheme which you sign up to if you want a discount/rebate when you buy your aircon. It’s not controlled by the smart meter and it is by choice.
@@callum683 Had mine shutdown last year in the morning on the beginning of the day. With a fault code that when I looked it up, was “Remote Shutdown” and this was a 5 year old Panasonic system. I also live in Victoria. Obviously this has been implemented for some time.
It doesn't work that way. The "Smart Meter" has one input and 2 or more outputs each output is metered separately, Traditionally one output would be for house and the other was for "Off Peak" hot water heaters and the like that could only legally have certified off peek services connected and are metered at a lower rate Newer Smart Meters have multiple separately metered outputs, One would be general household, another would be Off Peak, another might be mandated for high demand services like Air conditioners. So unless you can find an electrician that is willing to lose his licence and rewire your fuse box to connect your Air Con to the general house circuit you're stuffed. Or go Buy Portable Air Cons that plug onto a normal power point.
Why can’t they turn off the 5g towers instead of the aircon. Those towers use massive amounts of electricity and have aircons to keep them cool. It is the energy companies fault and the government fault too. Plenty of blame to go around.
@@mele1617 Wrong was participation in an experimental program a few years ago. Any participant has no reason to complain or whinge about anything ever again. The reason? You handed absolute power to those who want you to have no rights. So you should have no rights. Enjoy.
@deanhall6045 i dont live there ...but this is what happens with green energy...I am from the perimian basin in texas we are the oil capital of the USA.
They tried to put one in my house and I sold them no, but they insisted and told me I would be better off, I told them no, and to this day I still got old meter
Connecticut, USA. Power bill is ~10% regulatory fees and taxes, 15-20% usage, 65-70% DELIVERY CHARGES. (Delivery charges because due to deregulation, utility companies cannot be generators, and vice-versa; so the utility company purchases electricity in chunks based upon the current always-in-flux market rate from an outside source.)
This is the inevitable result of privatizing Electricity generation decades ago. No private company can build generation capacity that will only be used on 30 days a year and have it be profitable. And when the providers are chosen by free market bidding that is what they would have to do. The solution to fix the problem? GO back to a centrally managed and controlled government owned system that contracts for X amount of generation for Y dollars a year to the providers and make sure that is spread around enough during lower demand periods to cover the generation required in peak times. The current "Energy market" rewards suppliers when there is not enough power available because prices spike up massively and hugely increase profits so they are incentivised to make shortages worse not better.
It is already law in QLD that by 2030 every property in QLD must be on the digital meter. You can resist for maybe 5 more years, but by 2030 you either get no mains power, or you get the digital meter.
I got the letter last week for digital meter here in Toowoomba. They had sent a letter a year ago, but nothing came of it. Probably leave my lock on it.
Hard wired aircon is the way to go no digital chip no remote, the only way they can switch it off is if they come to your house & physically flick the circuit breaker unless you have a digital controlled circuit breaker then you're screwed.
We're in England, and the amount of times the energy companies have offered to fit us a smart meter is off the scale, we always say NO, AND DO NOT CONTACT US AGAIN, but they always do
@leehowson440 Yes, I'm in Victoria. We were forced to get smart meters starting in 2009. All households and businesses now have them. However, they won't affect your air con unless you have a DRED enabled unit.
In the UK it carries a £15,000 fine and 5 years in prison to bypass any of the "smart" functions of home appliances such as fridges, washing machines and heating. This was passed at the end of 2023 but the public are completely unaware. They no longer have any obligation to supply adequate power, they can just turn it off.
What's the legislation number? I had a quick look and did not find anything regarding a bill from 2023. The only bill is the 2008 bill what was to expire in 2023 but was extended to 2028. There is no mentioning regarding prison. It's a private matter, so if you tamper with the electric meter, it's the power company what needs to sue you, fine you and drag you to court. The government only passed a bill to make sure, the providers are provide you with the power.
They have had no obligation or even ability to provide adequate power in australia since it all got privatised decades ago. The market decides how much power you get and the providers make much bigger profits if there is a shortage and the prices spikes up massively.
Meanwhile, 150 yards of street in a town in northwest england is nothing but takeaways (you can guess the demographic), and every one of them has completely bypassed the gas and electricity meters. The energy suppliers are completely aware of this, but of course they dare not actually take them to task or there'd be hundreds and hundreds of their relatives gathered outside, just looking for an excuse to lose their cool.
I remember Smart Meters being praised by our leaders here in the States several years ago. I dont know where they stand currently...haven't heard much about them lately. Terrible idea, giving the government access to your thermostat.
New modern nuclear power plants are safe, recycle nuclear waste by reusing it and produces massive amounts of power. We're slowly starting to move toward them here in the U.S., I think it's an amazing idea.
Not enough energy in the sense that the base load supply coming from gas and coal can't keep up when the demand kicks in when everyone knocks off from work due to now having an over inflated unreliable "renewable" power grid. But over supply of power because we do not have the infrastructure and therefore capability to contain the supply coming from the wind and solar farms on particularly hot and windy days as we have a grid built for fossil fuels not bulk electricity storage through batteries or sufficient hydro.
It's just one branch of the agenda. Once you understand the agenda, you understand how each part plays its roll. Cognitive dissidents is just the beginning stages
@@simonthompson474 🤣🤣🤣The joke started about 4 years ago when they realised how many sheep there are in Australia. Too many. Sheep don't need air conditioning.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@00:09 remotely turned off aircon by the government because of a smart meter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 yeah, that's not possible. (IT guy here) unless your aircon is connected to Wi-Fi and can receive updates then yes it can be remotely shutdown in a way of big brother. having a smart meter installed will not do squat, the government will not reduce power to your house because it would easily destroy electronics, if this was happening we have a class action against the state. a smart meter gives the ability to thee power company to read electricity usage remotely or via the use of an infrared device the meter guy / gal uses on their monthly walks or whenever it is. A Smart meter will only read/send electricity usage or cut power to your house if you don't pay your bill. A Smart meter CANNOT control electronic devices in your house. (PROVE ME WRONG)
You dont get a choice in Peoples Republic of Victoria. It's compulsory to have a smart meter. I said they can disconnect you whenever they want. Another conspiricy come true. I saw this coming years ago and set up a back up system.
My aircon didn’t get shut off remotely but my power kept tripping out & I did notice the air cons weren’t as cold as they usually are? Peasants..Must comply,must comply, pay us & do not cry,don’t ask why or you will cry!
In Central Queensland with Ergon, the digital meters were installed as part of their upgrades. I do not recall a single letter or phone call informing or asking if we wanted digital meters. Ergon just did it.
I got my email from Ergon on the 17th about my meter "upgrade". Apparently I have until Feb 7 to call or write and say I don't want it. So at least there's the illusion of being able to opt out, but for how long?
@@sgtkabukiman9411 Thanks for replying. I am now going to check my spam/junk mailbox to see if I got a letter, however my email doesn't put Ergon's invoices into spam/junk.
My energy bill is roughly 30 bucks per week. I’m frugal with my consumption, live solo and shower twice a day , run a pigeon pair fridge freezer and the television 3 hours a day , small television that I pinched from my daughters bedroom, instead of the big tv!! It’s ridiculous and infuriating that we have so much available resources to allow the production of cheap power and we’re paying some of the highest costs globally??????? Make it make sense!!!!!!!!!
Several years ago here in Texas we had a bad stormy winter; our state has huge oil reserves, but because of the Green Insanity we have to use solar & windmills. The solar panels were broken by hail, frozen, and iced over; the windmills couldn't turn because the wind was too strong, so they froze, & some fell over. Power was out all over for up to 3 weeks. Thank God my house had natural gas, so we had heat & could cook, but our water heater was electric so we had to go to gov't shelters to have a shower. If our power had all been generated by oil, coal, or gas we wouldn't have had a problem, but 'renewables' (i.e. 'unreliables') really stuffed us up!
@@deniswauchope3788 "Freeze-pocalypse?" Up here in Connecticut, I really felt bad for you guys. Most of that time, it was warmer in CT than it was in TX! Actually, I feel bad every time you get a blast of New England-style winter weather, because it happens so rarely that your infrastructure isn't prepared for it, and your drivers lack the experience in it. A few RUclipsrs I enjoy were affected, it was a crazy time that I think will stick in peoples' memories for a while. The only real positive I can see is that it was a lesson - albeit a needlessly-harsh one - that was learned: renewables aren't THE solution. They can be great supplemental sources of energy, but we can't rely on what we can't rely on. Weather can be predicted, but not controlled; modern society will not accept electricity "when nature allows it." If you want to see a radical environmentalist go bonkers, wait until they can't charge their cell phone at the local Starbucks because it's overcast, and the solar farm can't power up the latte machine - or the free WiFi. 🤣
I'm surprised there's not enough energy... l was told that solar systems on homes are producing too much energy and there is a surplus. Who knows? Very interesting situation.
So you don't have enough electricity to go around, yet you want people to drive electric cars? The stupidity and incompetence of the Australian Government is unbelievable.
People are dumb enough to believe the climate scam.
I have yet to meet a woke person, then again they are all public servants , I'm alright Jack
The stupidity and incompetence of the average Australian voter is unbelievable.
Yeah and the clowns will still vote Labor, we need a Trump, Pauline is who we need, she would take no crap like TRUMP.
@@davidvanderklauwI heard today that a poll showed that Albanese was still the preferred Prime Minister !! A drovers dog would be better.
The lady's comment was spot on - anytime the government does anything, we should ask ourselves how that can be used against us.
exactly QUESTION EVERYTHING
That's literally your job as a citizen. Do they not teach Australians this? The government is not benevolent. They work against you, and it's your job to make sure they're working for you. They're using your money!
@@mikesmith-po8nd Reagan said, the 9 scariest words you will ever hear are, "We're from the government and we're here to help". Too many sheep in Australia, problem number one. Too many WEF in our parliament, problem number two.
In the USA we have a saying: Anything the government gives you, the government can take away.
@@Aimia4I think that thinking is now considered a mental disorder in Australia. Not joking.
A couple of years ago the idea that these new "smart metres" would mean that someone else could control your electricity use was considered a "conspiracy theory". Hmmmm...
Anything with the word "smart" is not to be trusted
Some gullible people are still saying that here in the UK.
(it isn't the smart meters it is a "smart switching unit' on the appliances' circuit - "grid controlled demand")...
You've never heard of tariffs? They've been around a long time and no one cared, but now when it's an opt in switch on your air con it's a problem?
@@elusivecamel
How about we have access to the cheap and abundant electricity that we are capable of producing? Oh, that would mean pretending that Australia can help save the world from "climate change". Sending all our fuel overseas is ok though. Mad.
This is exactly what's going on happen if we go cashless, banks will own us
Underrated comment. Both them and the government
They already own everyone. Anyone who puts their money in a bank are now unsecured creditors. They can come take your money as 'bail in' whenever there is a slight hiccup in the market.
They will be able to stop us spending… it’s already happening, I had a large purchase be declined because the bank remotely stopped it because they didn’t agree with the yeabsaction
They kind of already do they're all privately owned. ( Or most of ) Which I don't think most people realise - I didn't untill recently.
But you're 100% correct.
Especially these digital cards.
The pandemic gave bureaucrats a taste of real power, and they LOVED it.
It also gave them data from us… who complied, who didn’t, what we did, how we did it ETC.
It was a TESTER!
"We vote our way into tyranny, we have to fight our way out of it". Very true.
The problem is you can't vote your way out of it.
Australians won't fight
And I think they know that
Not really in Australia, I simply left Australia
@@kirbywaite1586you can "vote".. go outdoors and talk. When you are many who talk...do you understand what I am out for?
How. Every politician in every party is out for themselves. The Democrats gave us GST. The Greens Bush fires and the Liberals and Labor have sent us into wars and raised the cost of living so we can’t afford heat or air con.
We have to ration everything. Gas in Victoria is ridiculously expensive. The Victorian government will not allow new houses to have gas. Only electricity which is historically unreliable. Why? Because they’re selling our gas overseas and making a fortune. To hell with ordinary Victorians. So how do you vote out these creeps when all that’s on offer is more creeps.
An absolute disgrace. Qld used to have plenty of cheap reliable power back when we had better politicians and no loony WEF net zero policies.
Blame voters, not who they elect.
Oh, you mean back when the government owned both the power generation and power distribution systems? Back before temperatures skyrocketed and millions more airconditioners were installed across the state? And back when there were less than 2.5million people living in the state? Yeah, low-population socialism was much better.
"What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?... In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" - Maurice Strong (First Director of the United Nations Environment Program)
not that long ago. up until the 20 teens we had cheap power. my bills in the 2000's were only about 60 bucks, and that was without skimping.
You have no idea, no idea at all just how close to the wind Queensland used to run under the Petersen government. Seriously, what we got up to left other states gasping. It's really only that we had ripple controllers on HWS that prevented the lights going out on several occasions.
As electricity scarcity and rationing emanates from the renewables push, only greens and labor electorates should have their electricity turned off.
@@speedymccreedy8785 Anyone who participated in an experimental jab should live in darkness forever. The sheep gave all the power to these freaks.
Awesome call
@@speedymccreedy8785 Ignorance is bliss I guess. The Uniparty, not just green and labour, are totally corrupted by WEF. Our parliament is loaded with them. Wake up soon.
Exactly right
Should be called intermittent or unreliable - not “renewable”!
People are reporting that smart meters have been installed without consultation or paperwork.
Yep.. W.A here, was on holiday, came back all done thanks synergy 😡
In Canada they have done it for years .😢
Especially in rentals where tenants get no info from energy companies to change the infrastructure of the premises.
Energy companies have no real safety information for these meters.
They are the asbestos of this generation.
Rural Qld, we weren't given a choice on the smart meters. Nobody asked if we wanted it, it was automatic.
Imagine live on a continent with some of the greatest natural resources and living like this 😕🤦♂️👎
@@bdawg3942 The greatest resources including the amount of sheep. Just saying. Too many sheep. In Australia.
we have plenty of natural gas .
thank you U N
@@paulmarshall248 it's been given away mate. When politicians make bad deals, we all lose. But they get a damn good job when they retire from politics, so that's good I guess. 😯
@@brenohighland3259 Get it right mate, this is pure, unadulterated WEF.
Welcome to Labour's ideal future for Australia it's either unreliable power or none at all..
UN/WEF one world totalitarian government.is the plan.
Don't kid yourself! It will be just as bad under the Libs, or even worse!
But LNP were inpower 2009 to 2021...
We are living their outcome.
@@ChromecastM8 The LNP weren't the ones who went all in with renewables. If you were running a gas or coal-fired plant, would you be investing and spending big dollars on them to ensure longevity and reliability when the government has made it abundantly clear they want these plants gone?
@@ChromecastM8. RUBBISH ! BALDERDASH ! Wake Up .
So turning off air-conditioning to someone that has a medical issue and needs a cool environment is murder
@@vincentcacciola7161 Yeah, try being really stoned and the air conditioning gets disabled. Try that shit.
Should be sued and charged for
They don't turn it off. If you have a controllable AC they adjust the maximum cooling. If you have it on a ridiculous 18c or 20c they bump it up to a more reasonable 24c or 25c.
EDIT: I don't know exactly what they do with it, but they do reduce the power consumption to ease the network.
This can only be done on an AC unit that has this feature and for which you would have received a rebate for installing the feature.
@@iconoclad If you pay your your Bills who gives a toss what setting you have it at, you've paid to have the service
Exactly!!!
Time to defund corrupt politicians
We already are defunded, our natural gas exports should net us 80 billion not the current 2.2 billion.
@ do you think I should put the politicians part in “parenthesis”?
You meant to "string them up"...
And they want us to buy electric cars, what a joke, not enough power for a/c so let's use more to charge our cars. 😂😂😂 Governments in Australia are a joke.
They're dangerous.
It's the same bs in America! Buy an electric car bc they're so great, yet there's not power to run a hair dryer while the a/c is on 🤦🏼♀️
The idea is that you would use your car as a power wall for the grid. So your car will go dead to cool/heat your home to put less stress on the grid. At the same time, they will make gas, kerosene and petrol illegal.
@@timsievers2067 They can shove the EV where the sun don't shine.
No to Labor, No to Greens, No to Teals, Vote them out.
No wonder we keep getting clowns like this in power. Do NOT vote for the Liberals either!
and especially LNP who came up with the policy...
@alwaysright3718 typical liebor deception. This is not an LNP policy. Why do liebor idiots lie about such an obvious thing? Troglodytes.
Liebor stooges will try to blame the LNP for the failures of liebor idiots. As usual.
Liebor troglodytes will try to blame the LNP for the failures and deception of Casanova bowen and albagreasy.
Here in Victoria, we just have blackouts. We had a four hour blackout, on a hot day, just before Christmas. This new Global Warming Religion is dangerous.
@@stevetaylor8298 Honestly mate, no one cares about Victoria in any way, shape or form any more. It's a national embarassment. Sorry.
No we don’t.
The only times we have blackouts in Victoria is due to weather events where trees down power lines .
@@stevetaylor8298 Sorry. No one cares for Victoria any more. Seriously. Embarrassing.
I love Melbourne but Vic was the most totalitarian out from all the Australian states, at least that was my impression from the outside.
New religion? The global warming cult has been around a while, otherwise known as the church of climatology 😂.
Gov buildings should be the first one's to turn off
Especially, Parliament House, and the homes of the politicians who voted for this.
Yes! Turn off Canberra and Teal electorates and redirect the power
she was spot on. it is sad we have to question every action by government and corporations.
Guarantee you not one bureaucrat had their air conditioning turned off.
So your mom and dad had the same parents?
No electricity for you unless you’ve had your 74th booster
It’s coming to something like that. Vote wrong, think wrong, spend wrong and punitive action will be taken to restrict what you can do. Just wait until they force cashless purchasing and introduce the digital dollar. Then watch the fun as they control what you can spend money on.
@@jeffmoodie6144 Or watch what happens if we get a grid down event (lack of supply, solar flare, etc) as digital will be utterly useless with no coms/internet.
@jeffmoodie6144 666 as in Revelation 13 in the Bible. You not be able to buy or sell without it.
🤣😅😄😃😂
You fell for covID,of course you fell for the control grid
Wake Up
Also feel for Net Zero
Subjects wishing they were citizens.
Australians aren't smart enough...
OK wake up !!What do they do about it ?
@@lloydsingline340 Stop voting for them. Our parliament is putrid with WEF. They control every function of the Uniparty. Check out the publicly listed members and you'll see, they don't have Australia's best interests at heart. Nothing changes until the WEF is gone from our parliament. It's that simple.
"Gramps is having heat stroke! Get him inside!"
The power company:"I'm sorry. You have used your daily allotment of life today. Goodbye!"
Ice bath
@@Steven-hq3gofridge has melted 2 hours ago..
We live directly below a so called wind farm in Northern NSW, and 4 kms from a large solar panel farm. We rent the house on a cattle farm, we have had our hot water power reduced a couple of times, NO hot water for 2 days. Yesterday (30th Dec 2024) our air con wasn't cooling very well on a very hot day. This is not the first time we have had our power reduced. One time we were way for 10 days, my wife had an operation. My wife was looking forward to hot shower and air con after a 6 hour drive from hospital. We came home and just warm water. We received an email from power provider the next day saying we used to much power over the last 2 weeks and it was our hot water, so for the next 2 days no hot water it was just warm. BUT we were away!! Then less than a week later we received another email saying we used to much power and it was the air con. BUT apart from the first day home we never used the air con. So again reduced power. And lately (6-8 weeks ) our oven and hot plates are not heating up properly we even had the elements replaced to no avail. They don't have enough power but keep spending our money on stupid windmills and panels for what, so we can have reduced power. When we first move in to the house 3 years ago they replaced the smart metre and they hit us up $1400 on top of $200-$300 power bill. Some of what we were charged for we hadn't even started to rent the house.
There is no such thing as being put on reduced power. The grid doesn't work like that. You can't just reduce the voltage for one customer when you choose to. Potentially you could disconnect a complete circuit like the hot water, so it went on for less hours than necessary, but hot plates not getting enough power? Not a thing that can be targeted at one house, and turned on and off.
@drumphil00 yes they can and do. I was first made aware of it by a bloke in Queensland he h a dthr same thing
@@willholder9453 I'm afraid that you, and the "bloke in Queensland" have some confusion about how the grid, and physics, work. The only practical way to reduce the power used by a stove, is if the stove is smart enough to talk to the smart electricity system and, and the stove agrees to use less power and so turns itself down. To alter the voltage of the power supply the house runs on a variable variable transformer, or inverter is required, and that doesn't fit in your smart meter. To do that would mean an inverter fitted in your house, or a separate variable transformer on a pole for each individual house.
To be clear, the way it works with hot water is to limit the duration of heating cycle, not by heating the water more slowly.
Question: If people can operate their home appliances remotely with their phones, can power companies operate power to your home with smart metre technology??
Seems like ever since ownership of fire arms was banned in Australia, the government has obtained absolute control over its citizens, very tragic indeed
Told my electricity supplier to shove their smart meter where the sun doesn't shine. Had a feeling this would happen. Disgusting how the consumer is cheated with lies.
The PUC in my town tried that crap, told them NO!! and because I won't comply ,I get an extra charge for the meterman to come "read" the meter!😂🤪
Yep same here. They can shove there meters
You won't be able to resist forever unfortunately
It's not the meters doing this. It's smart airconditioning controllers. The smart meters being used in my area have no relays inside them - I know because someone on RUclips disassembled one (can't remember if it was eevblog, big Clive or someone else).
But I also read the manuals for these units when they first started appearing in town. Not the basic user manual. I read the installation manual and the fluffy brochures designed to get the power company to choose their products. Nowhere do any of them mention the ability to turn off power. If they did, they would mention the current it can break in the manuals and brochures.
@@chriswillis7359 the plan is going off grid
I lived in a small city in the Southwest US where we got over 250 sunny days per year. The city decided to host an experiment with a solar farm on the decommissioned landfill. They built a 2 MW solar farm with a (too small) battery backup. They immediately found that electricity costs were not reduced as the cost of electricity is not just how much electricity you have to buy from utilities but also a function of the peak demand and the peak demand comes in the evening when solar production is low (or zero in the winter). The batteries weren't big enough and weren’t getting charged enough on monsoon (cloudy and rainy) afternoons to be able to run through the peak demand period. So what did they do? They added "smart" meters to buildings and homes where people volunteered to have their AC shut off when monsoon clouds built up in the afternoon. Unfortunately, my employer at the time volunteered the building I worked in. In the monsoon season (mid-summer), several times per week, the AC would go out for several hours and the building would get to the high 80s (30 C). Many people left early but I couldn't do my job from home and I just couldn't work in that kind of heat. Because of that, I quit my job and took a job in a building where I had control of a wall-mounted AC unit. My employer wouldn't admit that the experiment was a total failure and ended up losing a lot of good people.
And while you were sweltering to 'reduce your carbon footprint', China produced as much CO2 in a second that you'd reduced in a year and no western government wants to mention this.
Wow, that is sh1t! But at least you found another job that suited you.
We moved from South Africa 14 years ago to escape "loadshedding". Australia is now the same, albeit a bit more refined and subtle.
In South Africa the power stations break down due to no maintenance, in Australia they blow them up for religious reasons
It'll end the same way, as Australia is no longer the "lucky country" but is rapidly becoming a 3rd world sh!thole.
Aussies are making you feel right at home…..
Subtle but still just as psychopathic.
I bet that's not the only thing you wanted to escape.
Its not a smart meter doing this, its a ripple controller you install for the air conditioning. Its an opt in system, and people happily take the money.
I didn't 'let them' install a digital meter in Qld, I was told I Had To!!
Labours net zero is a failure
Labor is a Failure. The FILTHY DISGUSTING DIVISIVE RACISTS PM, ELBOW, is so SELF ABSORBED HE DOESN'T CARE AND HATES WHITE TRUE BLUE HARD WORKING TAX PAYING AUSTRALIANS. THE LYING HYPOCRIT HASN'T WORKED A DAY IN HIS LIFE.
Labor's? You mean Liberals... and learn to spell tossa...
@@alwaysright3718it’s all of them except one nation
Net zero says it all.
@@alwaysright3718 liberals didn't implement it. look who's in power, and when this shit started. liebor.
This is what political corruption causes.
Well, i was a conspiracy theorist for pointing this out in the moment they wanted smart meters in your house.
Yep, the fools didn't see & still don't see. Last couple years our electricity provider has been trying to persuade us to have a smart meter, we keep declining their offer, we've had to "opt-out" twice so far, as they lost the last "un-authorized to install" from us due to their software upgrade, yet strangely all other details carried over, last time they told us that "soon it will be mandatory anyway". Ha, no smart meter will be installed on our property, we have good reason & the right to say nuh. Those that don't understand roll their eyes & sigh, the day will come when we roll our eyes at them when they're complaining about bs control ... tried to warn 'em but they just won't see, fools (AuntieEt)
Wanted? Around here (Virginia, USA), they were required. There was no choice, just a notice in the mail, telling you approximately when they'd be coming to change out your meter. Don't want the new meter, that's fine, then you're no longer a customer with the only power company available.
Nothing to do with smart meters, these people signed up for this type of air con, didn’t you listen to?
I remember Paul Joseph Watson doing a story on this happening in Sept 2023 in Europe. I guess it's only a matter of time until we're all hooked up.
Well it ws good to see the female mention untill the people have had enough and we have a revolution?
This in a country that is the Number One exporter of Energy in the World.
I repeat, Australia is the Number One exporter of Energy in the World.
Am I missing something here?
You voted to sell it all to China.
Yes we have a moron Govt. And morons who voted for them.
Yes, you're missing a definition. US was the world's biggest exporter of energy in 2023. You need to define your terms. Germany for electricity, Saudi Arabia for oil, Australia for commodities that _produce_ energy. What rules are you going by?
@@indiathylane2158 Simply Uranium, coal, gas.
Add up the energy contained in just these three alone and you have your answer.
Go up to Gladstone or Newcastle and wave goodbye to our beautiful coal leaving Australia to give the rest of the world what we should have. “Cheap power”
They also put the elctricity price through the roof while telling you we are giving you $1000 cost of living relief to hide it.
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Do your bit to add to the supply, storage & generation. If Bundaberg can do it we can...
1. Buy Solar Panels
2. Buy a Solar Battery
3. Buy a backup diesel generator
They turned off the electricity well all my stuff still works for the period it is turned off.
You have to get rid of stupid politicians.
Or crooked politicians, as most of them are.
They are not ever stupid, they do what they do best, serve themselves and lobyst where the money flows from whilst mastering the art of deception & spin , public relations control. Look at how he spin this topic around from control.
Severe shortage of smart one's.
So, just politicians? 🤔
We have been lied to since infancy. Democracy does not require politicians. As Abraham Lincoln defined democracy... "Government of the people, by the people and for the people". We did this a few months back, calling it a National Referendum and that worked just fine. The people have the right to formulate policy, draft legislation to their own consensus satisfaction, and then direct the executive wing of government to implement this. It ain't difficult and its easy to organise. Contrary to propaganda, it is not expensive and, in fact, is way cheaper than corrupt parliaments.
Several years ago we received the offer from our local electric company to install the new easy care system. The incentive was $250. We declined because we knew that this would be an issue. I’m in south central Texas, USA and people do die when there is no air conditioning. Before the state turns off your electricity, they should begin with stadiums and go from there. These policies have been created by politicians so that they can line their pockets. It’s a disgrace and immoral.
Turn it off in sports facilities and government buildings first.
And office buildings - how many lights are on and no one's home! Discusting
We had smart meters installed in 1986 : England AFB, Alexandria, La. They turned off the air, for ten minutes every hour. It wasn’t pleasant
@@westgerrman1 Probably wouldn't have been noticeable if they did it for 3 minutes 3 times an hour.
No freaking way! You can't run a nation like this. We need cheap energy NOW!
Yep, BRING BACK COAL
Australia mines coal and sells it all to China ..
Nuclear entered the chat.
No, we only need cheap energy if we want to grow and prosper; that's not what our elites want for us. We're supposed to live like serfs: tied to our land, working between sunup and sundown, and never going anywhere.
@@laubknight
in 10 - 15 years at the very earliest! planning, development, finding a suitable site, environmental studies, building infrastructure (roads, sewage, water etc), site preparation, reactor build, reactor testing, connecting to grid
The average construction time for a nuclear power plant is around 7 years, but the total time can range from 10-15 years. The median construction time for reactors connected to the grid in 2023 was 121 months, or almost 11 years
Im in Victoria and many years ago I NEVER agreed to them installing a smart meter - in fact I left a letter in my meter box stating that I did NOT give permission to install. They did it anyway when I was out all day (and there was NO incentive payment offered!!!)They came back 3 times to install an antenna but I said NO and they went away. Im assuming without the antenna whey cannot access it remotely - I still get my power read in person.
Australia produces 554 short tons of coal each year, most of which is exported. Australian utilities could build a bunch of new coal power plants and solve their electricity supply problem. When you have that much coal relative to your population and electricity use, every other method of generating electricity is literally a solution looking for a problem. Pollution from burning coal can be limited by refining the bitumen out of the coal, which can create a lucrative chemical industry. And by installing scrubbers and eductors to catch fly ash and dust from the coal fire. For the carbon dioxide, plant life is the sequestration method and a higher CO2 content in the atmosphere makes the plants grow faster. But here is the dirty little secret: burning fossil fuels worldwide only adds about 4% to the overall production of carbon dioxide and plant photosynthesis uses most of that up. If there is climate change, it is a natural phenomenon that we can neither cause nor prevent. The Milankovitch cycles indicate that we are overdue for new ice age, which is being delayed somehow.
So instead of killing people with heat stroke by turning off their air conditioning, how about building enough coal burning power plants to solve the problem? Even if that means China will have to buy more coal from Wyoming.
Of course that means Australian voters have to stop believing the Climate Change Caused By Burning Fuel Hoax and stop voting for the grifters who sell it to you and make your energy more expensive than necessary.
Here in the State of Washington, gasoline is down 40 cents per gallon just because we elected Trump! You need to elect an Australian Trump!
"... gasoline is down 40 cents per gallon just because we elected Trump!" Only a Trump cult member could believe that.
Well said 👏
Well said Roger👏
@@ezlow1065 Roger claimed we produce 554 short tons of coal each year. How is that well said? 550 tons wouldn't keep 1/4 of a glass factory running.
And it's not every year, it varies greatly.
@@indiathylane2158 Trump isn't in office, he cannot affect anything yet.
Oil isn't in the stock market, so it's not 'anticipation' for him affecting it's price either.
Gas prices are determined by global events that impact supply and demand of oil.
Supply is broadly the same, making slow changes as more infrastructure is built, and taking dives when wars impact that infrastructure or labor (wars in the oil fields of the middle east, or hurricanes hitting refineries in the gulf coast).
Demand is largely the same, increasing slowly as more people get into cars, and only decreasing in events like the pandemic.
The president has almost NO way to impact this apart from releasing oil reserves which has to be replenished, could backfire on is if attacked, and makes minimal difference anyway.
Left or Right, gas prices are up in the air no matter who you voted for.
But oil is trending upward in the long-term whether we like it or not, and we need that oil for things like plastic as well.
Electric cars won't hurt you, indeed, we already have cars pushing past 3000 horsepower, it will be better in the long-run after an adjustment period, it's really not that bad.
Do note, however, that Putin is part of OPEC+, and has reportedly been 'coercing' other members to raise prices (which Saudi Arabia has recently told him to pound sand); now I wonder why that would be?
Rationing your electricity, so that the government can use all that power to run Ai and all their lovely control systems watching you. And you pay for it.
Hahaha keep yelling at trees.
why do you think they want US all in electric vehicles!!!!!
100%
There's that word "they" again. They can take a running jump, I'm keeping my 2001 Commodore- will go forever as I look after it.
all those computers in those cars have (Go fencing ) in then
Total control over all aspects of our lives, you can’t even get in your car and drive for a while to cool off. We don’t have aircon we use fans and going for a drive gets you out and cool.
They don't want you in an EV. They don't want you to not travel at all.
Black out Bowen responsible for this. Another labor failure.
No no. You're responsible. You gave in to their agenda, got an experimental jab and handed power, totally, to the boss. Enjoy.😅
@@deanhall6045yep the sheep are being rounded up .
They will do the same with EV's 😈😈👿👿
@@deanhall6045 get a grip, lol.
@@indigocheetah4172 I don't need to get anything, I already said no. You should have too. Good luck.
Here in NSW we didnt get a 'rebate' & didnt get an option; we were told it was happening on a certain day and time, it was done, and we were told we would not be able to even have electricity without the smart meter (Mid Nth Coast of NSW)
I cant even keep hot water on for family because they time the heater, pay 500 for a tech to come and flick a switch to keep it on. Rubbish
Blame Teals, Labor, Greens, and multi-billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes.
@@valenrn8657 and Gates. Believe it.
Your forgot
Homes acoustic
Who funded the teals/pretend independents
@trg9765 Not sure where you get that from, they're Emily's List funded. Go check Emily's List. You'll see.
Don't forget professional crook Simon Holmes A Court
and especially LNP for signing up to idiocy...
If there's not enough power why the solar tax for having solar panels?
Time of day the aircon peak qld in the wet cloud buildup in the afternoon then everyone gets home from work, late in the day theres draw peak and solar is weak outside of middle of the day when sun is high in the sky
And the solar tax? The reason they want your panels off the grid is so the solar generators can be supplying during the only time they can generate. Even though during those times often the wholesale cost is negative.
Now why would they want to be supplying when they are getting charged to supply???
Cos they get subsidies. So their net is they get paid.
Where do the subsidies come from?
You. And me and every tax payer and green program charges on our elec bill, about 5c a kwh apparently are green program subsidies
@@davefoord1259This has to stop !! Utilities must be nationalised and greedy overseas corporations punted !!
@@davefoord1259 Ah so it's just when people are getting home, eh? Is that when they plug in their EV (which the government wants us all to have) and draw enormous amounts of power from the grid? I'm sure you're right that AC is also used around then, but by comparison the power needed for EV charging compared to AC is much greater. Are EV charging points also shut off, or only AC power?!
If you can avoid the tax by keeping your solar panels off the grid, and have them charge one of those huge-capacity PowerWall chargers that can act as household power, then I think it's a good deal: lower taxes and no electricity bill (other than the huge costs of buying and installing in the first place), and you get independence and self-sufficiency in exchange!
Now, when they want you to connect your PowerWall to the grid so they can drain your electricity and charge you money to sell it back to you . . . take a f'n axe to your genitals, mate!
But wait! Don't Worry! Labour and Albo has your back Australia. Yeah right. Wakey Wakey Australia. Clocks ticking. Vote wisely.😢
I'll vote similar to how I voted last time and it won't be Labor/ Greens in the House of Reps. The Senate I have to be careful!!
Labor. It’s spelt Labor, not Labour.
@@bluecent Its spelt LIEBOR
@@bluecent Nah its an avatar for communists!
you still think voting actually means anything? seriously?
To be honest serves them right, they let the scammers install "smart meters" and ignored the warnings from actual experts
Due to the AC's being switched off remotely like this last year on an extremely hot day in 2024 January in Qld it caused all the ACs in the house to malfunction beyond repair and I have had to get the whole thing replaced. Very annoying as we suffered for no reason. More annoying as I have solar so the consumption of electricity in my house hold is minimal. How can we give these companies the power to do this! And the government won't do anything about it. as most of the government agencies are privatised and the government has washed its hands off any responsibility.
And WHO is the genius who let the gov. do that to her house?? WHO is the genius who spends her time watching nonsense and Karadshions garbage and did not heed our warnings when WE told you this was coming??! WHO is the tightwad who wanted to save a peasly $400 per YEAR? It's called selling the soul/1st born. WE WARNED YOU!
Throughout the developed world, voters are voluntarily surrendering their freedoms to far left governments in the belief that Big Government has their best interests. I used to sit as an advisor on numerous high-level government committees here in Canada. The disdain that politicians and upper-level bureaucrats was nauseating.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Keep yelling at birds.
@@NihonKaikan Keep liking those boots, get right in there and clean those treads.🤪
@@NihonKaikan Who's gonna tell him that the world is increasingly bowing to far-right authoritarian governments the past decade or two? And that nationalism, left, right, authoritarian and all these terms don't necessarily mean the same thing in other countries? Aren't the 'Liberal Democrats' in Japan far-right? Isn't 'nationalism' in Canada left-leaning? And what is 'labour' anyway? Is this just putting people in boxes so you don't have to hear what they actually say?
And THIS is why you don’t get anything that resembles a smart meter. No matter how much they push or threaten. Say no.
Rely on yourself as much as possible and give the government as little as possible.
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But will the government leave us alone?
Kenoaff
That is supposed to be the founding principle of the US government. It was the founders' common goal.
Look at Europe and the effect of high energy on industry and the population.
Can someone explain how someone else can dictate when we can or cannot use a device WE OWN in our own home? The world has gone insane. Please make it make sense!
there is no making sense of it, its a fight, they started a war... on us
Queensland with the world's largest reserves of coal and methane, absolute insanity
But we make 0.3% of global emissions, think of the children... /s
Yes, and if the previous governments hadn’t sold the rights to that coal to China and blocked renewables, then this wouldn’t be happening. Jesus Australians are dumb.
I just got a 1500 dollar court fine for fighting the smart meter. I never got it in the end but it took me to verbally abuse the guy to stop working on it...
You gave up your guns. Everything after that is YOUR FAULT.
Did you agree for them to come in and install it??? I just said NO when they said they wanted to install one🤧
@@astormofwrenches5555Seriously? So what's America's excuse?
@@astormofwrenches5555 Yep you are right, it was the biggest tragedy.
@@astormofwrenches5555 Nope more of them here now than before that event.
Are you going to shoot someone for working on your meter?
Enjoy shower time in the prison.
The nanny state. Welcome to the new "Australia" 😢
“The New Normal”
If you complied during Covid
You are responsible 😊
We Need a Referendum from all Australians with regards to Australia participating in Net Zero
Referenda are only about changing the constitution.
Don’t panic, everything is just a conspiracy “theory”.
Welcome to the new world order 😂😂😂😂
You mean disorders 😅
Few world order.
Hahaha yeah, booster time.😮😅😂😂😂
@@drivinman100no , I mean fark them 🙂
I’ll probably get banned now.
They will do the same with EV's 😈😈👿👿
There is a small device in your Air Conditioning unit that allows the power company to turn off your cooling Function. The solution is simple call your local Air Cond mechanic and have the device removel.
You need to find a shifty one though. Most of them follow the book. However it could be integrated in the processor of the air conditioner control board. I am willing to bet that the system being used is IP over mains from the smart meter to the air conditioner controller. So removing a small circuit board may not be an option. The unit would have to be electronically hacked or some hobbyist makes a jammer that can be put on the mains.
It is called peaksmart in Queensland and it is a scheme which you sign up to if you want a discount/rebate when you buy your aircon. It’s not controlled by the smart meter and it is by choice.
@@callum683 Had mine shutdown last year in the morning on the beginning of the day. With a fault code that when I looked it up, was “Remote Shutdown” and this was a 5 year old Panasonic system. I also live in Victoria. Obviously this has been implemented for some time.
Good call.
It doesn't work that way.
The "Smart Meter" has one input and 2 or more outputs each output is metered separately, Traditionally one output would be for house and the other was for "Off Peak" hot water heaters and the like that could only legally have certified off peek services connected and are metered at a lower rate
Newer Smart Meters have multiple separately metered outputs, One would be general household, another would be Off Peak, another might be mandated for high demand services like Air conditioners.
So unless you can find an electrician that is willing to lose his licence and rewire your fuse box to connect your Air Con to the general house circuit you're stuffed. Or go Buy Portable Air Cons that plug onto a normal power point.
Absolutely insane. Should be illegal.
Why can’t they turn off the 5g towers instead of the aircon.
Those towers use massive amounts of electricity and have aircons to keep them cool.
It is the energy companies fault and the government fault too.
Plenty of blame to go around.
The question everyone should be asking is why they haven't upgraded the system ? Plenty of profits over the years, where did that money go ?????
This is absolutely wrong
@@mele1617 Wrong was participation in an experimental program a few years ago. Any participant has no reason to complain or whinge about anything ever again. The reason? You handed absolute power to those who want you to have no rights. So you should have no rights. Enjoy.
@deanhall6045 i dont live there ...but this is what happens with green energy...I am from the perimian basin in texas we are the oil capital of the USA.
They tried to put one in my house and I sold them no, but they insisted and told me I would be better off, I told them no, and to this day I still got old meter
Good for you! 👏👏👏👏
Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦 Power bill is
88% ADMINISTRATIVE
2% usage electric ⚡️
10% taxes
Connecticut, USA.
Power bill is ~10% regulatory fees and taxes, 15-20% usage, 65-70% DELIVERY CHARGES. (Delivery charges because due to deregulation, utility companies cannot be generators, and vice-versa; so the utility company purchases electricity in chunks based upon the current always-in-flux market rate from an outside source.)
Ummmmmm no, it isn’t. Make an argument based on fact rather than complete BS.
This is the inevitable result of privatizing Electricity generation decades ago. No private company can build generation capacity that will only be used on 30 days a year and have it be profitable. And when the providers are chosen by free market bidding that is what they would have to do. The solution to fix the problem? GO back to a centrally managed and controlled government owned system that contracts for X amount of generation for Y dollars a year to the providers and make sure that is spread around enough during lower demand periods to cover the generation required in peak times.
The current "Energy market" rewards suppliers when there is not enough power available because prices spike up massively and hugely increase profits so they are incentivised to make shortages worse not better.
It is already law in QLD that by 2030 every property in QLD must be on the digital meter. You can resist for maybe 5 more years, but by 2030 you either get no mains power, or you get the digital meter.
I got the letter last week for digital meter here in Toowoomba. They had sent a letter a year ago, but nothing came of it. Probably leave my lock on it.
Or you get stand alone solar! Yes its exy but better than no power!
Disgraceful and these people need to be compensated. I’m sure not one bureaucrat or politician making these decisions were ever affected.
And they want to charge all these electric vehicles too
Al Bundy says "I don't think so Peg"
It's sad that pensioners in the UK have a "fuel allowance" at all, nevermind that it's been taken away from them in the push for NetZero.
For get net Zero it can not be done wake up people of Australia
Hard wired aircon is the way to go no digital chip no remote, the only way they can switch it off is if they come to your house & physically flick the circuit breaker unless you have a digital controlled circuit breaker then you're screwed.
We're in England, and the amount of times the energy companies have offered to fit us a smart meter is off the scale, we always say NO, AND DO NOT CONTACT US AGAIN, but they always do
We had no choice
@PennyEv4 why not? , and do you mean in Australia?
@@leehowson440in think they mean for anyone, anywhere
My rented property already had them installed, asked for them to remove them but they refused or I could pay £250 to remove each one. 😮
@leehowson440 Yes, I'm in Victoria. We were forced to get smart meters starting in 2009. All households and businesses now have them. However, they won't affect your air con unless you have a DRED enabled unit.
In the UK it carries a £15,000 fine and 5 years in prison to bypass any of the "smart" functions of home appliances such as fridges, washing machines and heating. This was passed at the end of 2023 but the public are completely unaware. They no longer have any obligation to supply adequate power, they can just turn it off.
What's the legislation number?
I had a quick look and did not find anything regarding a bill from 2023.
The only bill is the 2008 bill what was to expire in 2023 but was extended to 2028.
There is no mentioning regarding prison. It's a private matter, so if you tamper with the electric meter, it's the power company what needs to sue you, fine you and drag you to court.
The government only passed a bill to make sure, the providers are provide you with the power.
@@GoalSquad666First time for me also to hear that
They have had no obligation or even ability to provide adequate power in australia since it all got privatised decades ago. The market decides how much power you get and the providers make much bigger profits if there is a shortage and the prices spikes up massively.
Meanwhile, 150 yards of street in a town in northwest england is nothing but takeaways (you can guess the demographic), and every one of them has completely bypassed the gas and electricity meters. The energy suppliers are completely aware of this, but of course they dare not actually take them to task or there'd be hundreds and hundreds of their relatives gathered outside, just looking for an excuse to lose their cool.
Complete and utter BS. Don’t talk sh1t.
I remember Smart Meters being praised by our leaders here in the States several years ago. I dont know where they stand currently...haven't heard much about them lately.
Terrible idea, giving the government access to your thermostat.
New modern nuclear power plants are safe, recycle nuclear waste by reusing it and produces massive amounts of power. We're slowly starting to move toward them here in the U.S., I think it's an amazing idea.
Instead of the government fixing the problem, they would prefer to pay people to go without electricity
Yet, Greenland was green a thousand years before mankind even burned a lump of coal.
What?
@@MichaelKoronka
why do YOU think it's called GREENland?
@@andyman8630 Because it is not Iceland. Which is, in fact green.
And the Sahara Desert used to be a jungle. Climate change is natural, not man-made.
@@AndrewFishman
yeah, today it is,, not so long ago (in geological terms) greenland was GREEN and ice-free 400k yrs ago
I don’t understand. Not enough energy yet they also complain too much energy. How long will this BS go on
Not enough energy in the sense that the base load supply coming from gas and coal can't keep up when the demand kicks in when everyone knocks off from work due to now having an over inflated unreliable "renewable" power grid. But over supply of power because we do not have the infrastructure and therefore capability to contain the supply coming from the wind and solar farms on particularly hot and windy days as we have a grid built for fossil fuels not bulk electricity storage through batteries or sufficient hydro.
It's just one branch of the agenda. Once you understand the agenda, you understand how each part plays its roll. Cognitive dissidents is just the beginning stages
@@Th3-Moz The bigger the battery, the bigger the failure.
RENEWABLES WHAT A JOKE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@simonthompson474 🤣🤣🤣The joke started about 4 years ago when they realised how many sheep there are in Australia. Too many. Sheep don't need air conditioning.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lack of education, what a joke.
Yep. That was bought in when we signed up to a subsidy to install them. You know that when you sign the dotted line.
@00:09
remotely turned off aircon by the government because of a smart meter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
yeah, that's not possible.
(IT guy here) unless your aircon is connected to Wi-Fi and can receive updates then yes it can be remotely shutdown in a way of big brother.
having a smart meter installed will not do squat, the government will not reduce power to your house because it would easily destroy electronics, if this was happening we have a class action against the state.
a smart meter gives the ability to thee power company to read electricity usage remotely or via the use of an infrared device the meter guy / gal uses on their monthly walks or whenever it is.
A Smart meter will only read/send electricity usage or cut power to your house if you don't pay your bill.
A Smart meter CANNOT control electronic devices in your house. (PROVE ME WRONG)
You dont get a choice in Peoples Republic of Victoria. It's compulsory to have a smart meter. I said they can disconnect you whenever they want. Another conspiricy come true. I saw this coming years ago and set up a back up system.
My aircon didn’t get shut off remotely but my power kept tripping out & I did notice the air cons weren’t as cold as they usually are?
Peasants..Must comply,must comply, pay us & do not cry,don’t ask why or you will cry!
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In Central Queensland with Ergon, the digital meters were installed as part of their upgrades. I do not recall a single letter or phone call informing or asking if we wanted digital meters. Ergon just did it.
I got my email from Ergon on the 17th about my meter "upgrade". Apparently I have until Feb 7 to call or write and say I don't want it. So at least there's the illusion of being able to opt out, but for how long?
@@sgtkabukiman9411 Thanks for replying. I am now going to check my spam/junk mailbox to see if I got a letter, however my email doesn't put Ergon's invoices into spam/junk.
@@sgtkabukiman9411I believe it 2028-2030 and all meters are to be changed to smart meters
Now all them dope growers can dump them blue boxes fooling the old meters.
ITS NOT JUST ELECTRICITY!!! IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT CONTROL!
My energy bill is roughly 30 bucks per week. I’m frugal with my consumption, live solo and shower twice a day , run a pigeon pair fridge freezer and the television 3 hours a day , small television that I pinched from my daughters bedroom, instead of the big tv!!
It’s ridiculous and infuriating that we have so much available resources to allow the production of cheap power and we’re paying some of the highest costs globally???????
Make it make sense!!!!!!!!!
Testing public naivety
@@pelicancountrysinger Booster?
USA here, In my state, we have had fog and rain for the last 9 days, with another 4 more in the forecast. So much for solar.
Here in the Netherlands fog and rain for weeks now….
Several years ago here in Texas we had a bad stormy winter; our state has huge oil reserves, but because of the Green Insanity we have to use solar & windmills. The solar panels were broken by hail, frozen, and iced over; the windmills couldn't turn because the wind was too strong, so they froze, & some fell over. Power was out all over for up to 3 weeks. Thank God my house had natural gas, so we had heat & could cook, but our water heater was electric so we had to go to gov't shelters to have a shower. If our power had all been generated by oil, coal, or gas we wouldn't have had a problem, but 'renewables' (i.e. 'unreliables') really stuffed us up!
In North Queensland most solar panels are toast after 3 years of our extreme UV radiation.
@@deniswauchope3788 "Freeze-pocalypse?" Up here in Connecticut, I really felt bad for you guys. Most of that time, it was warmer in CT than it was in TX! Actually, I feel bad every time you get a blast of New England-style winter weather, because it happens so rarely that your infrastructure isn't prepared for it, and your drivers lack the experience in it.
A few RUclipsrs I enjoy were affected, it was a crazy time that I think will stick in peoples' memories for a while. The only real positive I can see is that it was a lesson - albeit a needlessly-harsh one - that was learned: renewables aren't THE solution. They can be great supplemental sources of energy, but we can't rely on what we can't rely on. Weather can be predicted, but not controlled; modern society will not accept electricity "when nature allows it."
If you want to see a radical environmentalist go bonkers, wait until they can't charge their cell phone at the local Starbucks because it's overcast, and the solar farm can't power up the latte machine - or the free WiFi. 🤣
You do understand that it still produces power in rain, fog and even snow right, just at reduced levels. The stupidity of some is hilarious.
So they turn off your air conditions on just the type of day you bought your air conditioner for. Make it make sense.
@@birgittabirgersdatter8082 like buying a bag of weed and not being allowed to smoke it when listening to music.....
big nanny knows best.
3:38 if they let you know what you're in for of course. The problem is they won't. And this young man has no respect for that older gentleman.
It's a perfect example of how renewables are failing....
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Derp…ok Einstein.
@NihonKaikan 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 upset that I can think for myself and don't share in the blind love of your newfound cult...... OK, FARKTARD......
Only 'Smart' meters can be installed now, you dont have an choice anymore. Anyone still have a digital or analog need to keep theirs.
And if you want solar, theoretically to reduce your power bill, you're going to have that smart meter fitted whether you want it or not!
Wow. All the conspiracies theories coming true.
Yes just no apologies to go with it.
I'm surprised there's not enough energy... l was told that solar systems on homes are producing too much energy and there is a surplus. Who knows? Very interesting situation.
This will create extreme distrust between people and government.
No wonder they are pushing for EVs.