Greedence Revival

It's frustrating and annoying to read the news sometimes. Now the price of gasoline is going to get close to 2 euros per litre in Finland. That's a lot. This way, the oil companies will harm themselves, by giving room for bio-gas. That serves them right! The greed knows no boundaries.

The electricity companies are legendary, especially Fortum which is led by the state. They lifted up the price when there was not enough rainy days in Norway where the electricity was coming from. The next year it rained a lot there, but it didn't lower the prices. They went up again instead. Many times when electricity consumption has increased, they have pumped up the price, because it's so damn expensive to cover the peak consumption. This Summer the news from Fortum was no different - only the grounds were new. The Finnish electricity consuming had dropped 10%, so they will have to increase the price by 11%! Boy, did I get angry to read that! I have tried to save energy - only to get my electricity bill stay the same? Normally, when consumption goes down, the prices follow. But not in this case. And they are even increasing their income by 1% on top of everything. Greed is the word.

This Autumn the tax (GST, ALV, MOMS, whatever the tax is called) of the groceries will be lowered. They have set up some officials in a group to watch that the prices wouldn't go up right before the tax lowering, thus bringing the profit into the sellers' pockets instead of customers'. Like it did when we changed our currency to euro in 2002. Now they have already detected the face-lift of the prices in several places. I must point out that the food costs in Finland more than in any other country in EU. The poor people must suffer always, it seems. Nonetheless, the people get screwed in the end. The greedy rich get greedier when they get richer.