“A mechanism must be established to monitor and prevent excess profits in electricity markets and a mechanism to ensure that the profit margin of energy providers does not exceed 5%”, underlines the Press Office of SYRIZA, commenting on today’s statements by K. Mitsotakis, adding at the same time that the prime minister “proves in yet another Sunday sermon that he is probably addressing the Greek people from some parallel universe”.
SYRIZA’s announcement completely deconstructs the alleged measures taken by the government to tame electricity prices.
The announcement of SYRIZA
Kyriakos Mitsotakis in yet another Sunday sermon proves that he is probably addressing the Greek people from some parallel universe.
How else to explain the fact that he insists on the imported crisis scenario?
How else to explain the fact that it took him six months to discover “excess profitability” and “skyrocketing profits”, artificially inflated prices and set out to address the overburdening of household consumers.
How else to explain that it characterizes the price increase as seasonal?
We are sorry that we have to bring Mr. Mitsotakis back to reality, but we want to remind him that:
The subsidy given by the government only concerns August and not July, when the price of the kilowatt hour was already increased.
The discounts given by the companies come with some conditions that if not fulfilled one will pay a much higher bill.
Some companies put the “big” discount up to 100 kilowatt-hours and from there on they price it with more than 19 cents.
The energy exchange and its participants rushed the very next day to increase the price to twice the tax, i.e. plus €20 per megawatt hour.
The subsidies concern only households, excluding social tariffs and businesses, so the coverage presented is fictitious.
Pro-government celebrations that the tariff has dropped below 15 cents/kWh for residential electricity consumers are sadly belied as only 4 out of 13 providers have a price below 15 cents per KWh.
While the real objective of the sell-off of PPC by Mr. Hatzidakis and the rumors about self-regulation of the market become clear when according to official data PPC has the fourth largest price increase per KWh in August among the 13 providers.
We have said this responsibly and timely since the beginning of April and our subsequent law proposal: A mechanism must be established to monitor and prevent excess profits in electricity markets and a mechanism to ensure that the profit margin of energy providers does not exceed 5%.
As long as Mr. Mitsotakis does not solve the problem at its source, he will not offer any economic relief to the social majority that is groaning.
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