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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Perth, Northern Suburbs
Posts: 4,870
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For some bizarre reason in Perth, we have Gas Resellers (much like the NBN). They don't have to do anything, don't even need a physical footprint in WA, they just send you the bill.
They all offer some level of discount to the stipulated tariff, so I suppose that's a good thing. And they offer various little perks, like flybuys, free Amazon Prime, etc. Now the mob I went with, had another little lure, they claim that 25% of their energy is from renewables. Obviously I called BS on that, I KNOW where the gas comes from. at which point the customer service person admitted that actually they just pay a fee to be able to claim this. They wouldn't say how much, but I have to assume it's peanuts. They were already in front on price compared to the Flybuys and Velocity offers, and they paid my Amazon bill for a year. And this isn't some option that I pay more for, it's gratis. So to me, the obvious question is "why not pay half a cent more and claim 100% renewable?" But would that make the BS too obvious? This notion that we can solve all of the world's carbon emission problems just by paying a few cents in the dollar for "Carbon Credits"? Something just doesn't add up! Logically this leaves only one of three possibilities:
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