Five More Years to stop electricity theft

windeguy

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I see the new man in charge of CDEEE has come out with a schedule and says it will take 5 more years to end electricity theft!?! I suppose there is no political will to do it faster than that. In 2015 the goal is 24/7 for everyone.

But as least he has a schedule. Believe it when I see it.
 

ExtremeR

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He set a realistic option, if he would have said in one year you will be grilling him for putting up unrealistic goals or for repeating what every politician says (arreglaremos la luz en dos anios).
 

mike l

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I read that article and laughed.

All these articles sound the same, like power in Sosua 24/7.
 

mart1n

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They are too many people selling generators,inversors,batteries and voltage regulators it would cripple the economy to put these people out of work. I don't think the government is going to change anything.
 

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We all know it'll never happen... Even Venezuela has heavy blackouts nowadays...
 

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I see the new man in charge of CDEEE has come out with a schedule and says it will take 5 more years to end electricity theft!?! I suppose there is no political will to do it faster than that. In 2015 the goal is 24/7 for everyone.

But as least he has a schedule. Believe it when I see it.

Conveniently, this is about the time the upcoming new administration would be re-elected. Gee...I wonder if that is just lucky timing?
 

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dont they realise people on a fixed rate use four times as much as they pay for- they could start there with a big saving lol and they could pay people who report electricty thieves another big saving
 

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5 more years + 5 more years + 5...........

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Ah cuban, that is a great photo! My husband just shook his head sadly looking at it....

I don't know if we've just be very lucky, but we've found the electricity on more that off at the apartment we're renting in SD. Ditto at my suegra's house in the capital, it's almost always on when we go there and that's a BIG change. Out at our house in Najayo Beach we rarely have electricity, we always go out there with a huge chest of ice because we can't depend on the refrigerator. This past week the electric has been on almost all day every day except one. Had electricians working there for 2 days installing a new breaker box and running new wiring, and even they were surprised. It cuts off around 7 pm but that's when we're leaving to return to the capital anyway.
 

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This is scary, and I am not being sarcastic. Scary because every year I've been here this has been the same slogan used over an over in the media. This newspaper clip was forty years ago. Many things have changed in this country, except this, so it scares me to believe what the future will bring. Could we potentially be in the same predicament 40 years from now???


Lu
 
Interesting newspaper photo. Makes me think this country dont want stable electricity. Maybe its a goode idea to have the people just talking about the lights, if they have stable electricity in their homes maybe they start to talk about more serious problems.

Just a thought. :glasses:
 

windeguy

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Sad but true

This is scary, and I am not being sarcastic. Scary because every year I've been here this has been the same slogan used over an over in the media. This newspaper clip was forty years ago. Many things have changed in this country, except this, so it scares me to believe what the future will bring. Could we potentially be in the same predicament 40 years from now???


Lu

That is scary but also a likely scenario. There does not seem to be the will to correct this problem.
 

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They are too many people selling generators,inversors,batteries and voltage regulators it would cripple the economy to put these people out of work. I don't think the government is going to change anything.

I would disagree with this statement. If electricity was 24/7, businesses would be able to operate much cheaper and thereby have more disposable income to expand, hire more workers, be more productive, export cheaper, etc. The positive effect on the whole economy would far outweigh any negative effects, however, they would be hard to measure compared to the local guy who gets laid off selling inverters.
 

Conchman

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It's hard to fathom that someone thought it was more important to build a US$1B subway than to solve the electricity problem. I mean, for $1B, you could have paid off all debts, installed all pre-paid meters, and upgraded all generators and distribution lines.
 

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I was just thinking the same! :D
I was watching some "Balaguer" DVD's the other day and sadly amused to see that even just after Trujillo and Bosch, campaigns were run on the hopes and "promises" of an end to the apagones! :cheeky:
It's almost like fixing social security in the US, it almost seems an older subject than the country itself.
Politicians do have 24 hrs power and most likely for free (somehow). They couldn't care less, even worse... it's always a good one to pick to write some new dramatic speeches about.
The problem is so BIG and getting bigger every day, most politicians with an IQ over 80 (yes, there are actually a few) KNOW that a true solution would take so much money and so much time, they would not reap the rewards within their own political lifespan. So why bother beyond making the country spend on a few new things here and there at prices so high, they need new garages built for all the new yipettas coming their way from "commissions" and call it "Modernization"

... J-D.
 

windeguy

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Since history has a way of repeating itself, I can see the same things being said in another 40 years. Of course politicians have 24/7 power. They are in charge of it!.