Jul 18, 2009, 12:08 AM
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We're constantly laughing at how absurdly low our electricity bill here is in Tokyo, we live in a tiny apartment but it's like $19US a month.
In Australia it was horrendous. We lived in a slightly larger apartment (but still not giant by any means) and had to take $120 a month electricity bills. We were pretty sure there was something horribly wrong with the meter, but once they sent somebody out to look at it who opened the lid and said "yeah this is fine" and walked away without doing anything other than glancing at it.
If you compound the hilariously high bills with the fact they'd jack the kwh rates up significantly in winter when you desperately needed more for stuff like heating and you'd realise they were on to a pretty good scam.
Do other countries change their rates seasonally? Their justification seemed pretty awful to me.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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