#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Greece, liberta salonica: ONLY.... OR THE LAMP DOES NOT BURN! - Interventions with colors in 4 electricity providers [machine translation]

 From December 2021 onwards, we have all seen our electricity and gas bills

skyrocket. What exactly happened? ---- From December onwards, on the one hand,
the European reference price of electricity jumped, while on the other hand, the
price of electricity in Greece remains consistently the most expensive in Europe.
---- Throughout the month of December and the month of January until now the
prices remained at inconceivable levels. On December 21, especially the European
reference price reached € 162,775 per megawatt hour (MWh), recording an increase
of 20% compared to the previous closing, surpassing the previous record of
October 6. On the same day in Greece the wholesale price of electricity ) -the
cost of Mwh (megawatt hours) amounted to € 415.94, recording an increase of +
546% . On the same day the increase in natural gas was + 941%! In order to
understand what the price of € 0.40 per Kwh (kilowatt hour) means, it should be
noted that in 2020 consumers paid Kwh (kilowatt hour) to 0.080. This year it rose
at the end of Autumn to € 0.15 while the rise continues. THEtotal increase in one
year has reached 400% , while just a year ago according to the official data of
IPTO in December 2020 the wholesale price per megawatt hour was € 64,422.

Prices fluctuated several times, falling for a few days and rising again on
29/12. Exact numbers do not matter. Suffice it to say that the bills that reach
our homes are increased by 3 or even 3.5 times compared to last year, and we can
not pay them!

And one more thing: yes, of course the crisis is pan-European, but Greece
consistently has incomparably higher prices than other countries: and this is not
indefinitely the fault of "America" and "Russia", but the policy of the
government that allows the vulgar speculation of energy companies that alone and
without any control co-decide prices! Indicatively in the first 11 days of the
year, the average price in Greece was over € 199, compared to the second most
expensive, Switzerland - where the basic salary is € 3,800!!!! - which is at €
188 and the third, Poland which is at 145 € (44 € cheaper!). Greece is
consistently the country with the most expensive electricity wholesaleamong the
18 priced countries, with an average annual price of € 116.32 per megawatt hour,
compared to 109 in France or 97 in Germany, ie countries with multiple minimum
and average wages. And this is not the fault of anyone other than the idiots of
the companies and their minions who govern us.

At the same time, the same people who, in order to favor the interests of their
"friends", owners of private energy companies (how long has it been since
Milionis of energa was "acquitted"? How long has Floros also been released from
prison? as a minister he was photographed in Protergia's car;) they leave prices
uncontrollable, they come to pretend to be the merciful benefactors of the poor,
"subsidizing" the current.... Mocking us once again in our faces.

According to Messiah Mitsotakis, € 400 million will be given to deal with the
increases in electricity tariffs. Of course a large amount of this will be given
not to poor households but to businesses.... "So that they remain on a growth
trajectory". What will the people below get in the end? The subsidy for the first
300kWh for the month of December is at € 49.5 from € 39 that was in November. For
the beneficiaries of the Social Housing Tariff (CTO), the government "support" in
December goes to 55.5 € per month from 45 € which was in November. Increase of
the subsidy, ie.... 10 € per month, when the bills come at least three times!!!!

As a result of this unprecedented situation, we are once again counting the dead
of our class. The research of the former Deputy Chief of the Fire Brigade,
Adrianos Gourbatsis, shows that in 2021 there was a vertical increase in deaths
from fires in houses. Specifically, in 2021 there were 34,343 urban fires , a
number that compared to 2020 is increased by 70.8% and compared to the average of
the decade 2010-2020 by 84.2%. From these fires we counted 83 dead- a number that
is the highest since 2010 (we had 68 deaths in 2020, and an average of 29 deaths
per year from 2010 to 2019 - so an increase of 22% from 2020 and 186.2% from the
previous average) . One of the main reasons for these fires, and therefore the
deaths we are counting, is the increase in the cost of electricity and heating
that leads them from below to the possibility of unsafe heating and therefore to
the use of unsafe means.

This rise in prices also affects all other basic goods, since energy is about 20%
of the operating costs of supermarkets. In addition to the current price
increases of about 2% for all items of popular consumption , which in some items
reaches up to 12%, new price increases are expected from January 15 in almost all
fresh and standardized foods, cleaning items and household items. use. The
increase in the final prices on the supermarket shelf in 2021 moved in the area
of 1.5%, while for 2022 it is estimated that it will increase by an additional
3%. A necessary footnote here is that it is completely unclear to what extent the
price increases are actually due to rising energy prices and to what extent the
rise in energy prices is another reason for the super-sharks of the super market
chains to rise for once again the prices.

On the increase of electricity and gas, mentioned above, on the increase of basic
goods, the increase must also be calculated: of petrol by 16.8% , of diesel by
20.25% , of transport by 6.7% and housing by 4% .

And we have to cover all this with a € 500 monthly salary, and with the
Hatzidakis law cutting us even overtime. The government probably estimates that
we will pick... many olives this year!

They work in our faces and impoverish us financially. At the same time that we
can not pay our rent, which is almost as much as our monthly salary, let alone go
out for our basic living, the tests for the quint are still not prescribed and we
pay - and these - we, to be grabbed by the big-clinics. And when we ask for any -
self-evident benefit - such as free tests and NSS support, they answer that if
they give them for free, we will pay them again out of our own pocket! And this
is what those who boosted public debt to 235% say, distributing money to SME
parrots, highway owners, large private clinic sharks, new hires and more cops
than anyone could have imagined, Rafale planes and Romeo helicopters,

THAT'S ENOUGH

If we do not want to die - literally - of hunger, it is time to react.

To react to those who cut our salaries every few months, who pass bankruptcy laws
to seize our first home, and new insurance laws to work until we literally die at
work, those of us who work because our country has the first in youth
unemployment rates.

To react to those who increase the cost of our livelihood in all possible ways,
in food, basic necessities, housing, transportation, EVERYTHING, while now they
magically ask us to find money for AT LEAST THREE times electricity and gas bills.

TO REACT TO THOSE WHO STOLE OUR LIFE EVERY DAY

For this reason, on the night of Wednesday 13/1, we carried out interventions
with paints and sprays in 4 stores of 4 different electricity providers:

- in the DEDDIE store

at Watt and Wolt store on Lambraki Street

- at the Iro store on Voulgari Street

- at the Zenith store on Voulgari Street

Thessaloniki Liberation Initiative (member of the Anarchist Federation)
blog: libertasalonica.wordpress.com
contact e-mail: lib_thess@hotmail.com

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2022/01/13/
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