Message-ID: <68d5d1dd@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: The "Standards" Game Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 References: <10a6nt3$1c65i$1@dont-email.me> <10a9qlq$25h61$1@dont-email.me> <10ac80j$2nuve$1@dont-email.me> <10ac8lq$2nkob$2@dont-email.me> <68d087a6@news.ausics.net> <10ar9d9$2a86g$1@dont-email.me> <68d1d3e6@news.ausics.net> <10atuhj$2tidd$15@dont-email.me> <68d333e6@news.ausics.net> <10b0pk5$3ljbp$1@dont-email.me> <10b0upf$3mjsl$1@dont-email.me> <10b30u4$67lv$2@dont-email.me> <10b32rs$5u19$21@dont-email.me> <10b3bq4$67lv$6@dont-email.me> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20250707 ("Helmsdale") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 26 Sep 2025 09:35:57 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 20 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:75253 alt.comp.os.windows-11:24559 In comp.os.linux.misc Pancho wrote: > > Yes, you can say electricity prices might go up. They have gone up. Have they though? There were recently huge peaks in the electricity price in Australia due to peaks in international gas prices and old coal power plants being shut down (plus a not-so-old 2001-vintage coal power plant exploding). But apparantly here in Victoria the price in 2024 had dived back down to where it was ten years earlier: https://www.energycouncil.com.au/analysis/spot-market-prices-and-revenues-ten-years-of-historical-spot-prices/ Longer-term inflation-adjusted statistics here for the USA show the price of electricity steadily going down there since 1978: https://www.in2013dollars.com/Electricity/price-inflation -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#