April14
I dreaded receiving the Meralco bill because I know it would spike..Our last bill was at 2,500 and now its at 3,800 and I’m dreading the next bill even more. I am hearing a lot of stories from other people. Bloggers like Noemi Dado, Chuvaness &Carlo Ople have also written about this issue. The electric bill going up as high as 50% to 90%. Scary!!!
They are telling us that they are not making any money. How can they not make money out of all of us when they have virtually hostaged us. You don’t pay on time and they cut your electricity. You can’t even pay less than what you are supposed to. They even have the audacity to say that we’re still going to have rotating brownouts. I even joined the facebook group ONLINE PROTEST AGAINST MERALCO ELECTRICITY PRICE HIKE to say that we need to take a stand.This highway robbery cannot go on. Enough is enough.


I looked at my bill and I can see that they have a lot of charges.Namely : Generation charge, Tax on Generation charge, Transmission charge ,Tax on Transmission charge, System loss Tax on System Loss Distribution, Metering and Supply charges Lifeline rate subsidies Tax on distribution, metering and supply charges and lifeline rate subsidies. Local franchise tax Universal charges when you sum it up that is the total of our electric bill.
Did you even notice that in one electric bill we pay for 5 different kids of taxes? This is the flow of electricity and I know that the flow of electricity even the substation and step-down transformers are operating on the maximum efficiencies. Unfortunately we don’t even know if how long do they use the machines before they replace it which might account for the breakdown of the plants and cause power failures.
I don’t agree with the system loss because it is their loss and they should not pass it on to us They should also remove the universal charges because it is still our money and while they are at it the subsides charge and transmission charges should go too. We should just pay for the electricity that we actually consume. They are making so much money so they should shoulder the charges why would they pass the buck on to us.Another thing that makes me sick is the 12% e-vat. Imagine 5% Tax that you paid for will be taxed yet again.
What makes me even more is sick is the politicians that are campaigning for our votes this coming elections are not saying or doing anything. This is just telling me that nothing has changed we still don’t have candidates that have enough substance. Most of the politicians are just all about the grandstanding, promising things that they could never keep and black propaganda against their political rivals.