Border residents and business owners are struggling with the cost of energy.
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00:00 Well as a business energy costs a fairly significant part of our build cost and you know unfortunately
00:07 you have to pass it on to the customers and they've probably increased by I would say
00:14 probably 30% in probably the last two years, which is a significant amount.
00:20 Well it means I have to increase what I've been putting away for gas and electricity
00:27 because it's gone up so much.
00:31 How much has that gone up?
00:33 Off the top of my head I'm going.
00:36 I've had to increase what I was already putting aside.
00:40 I've had to double.
00:41 I don't know how families cope, how they get on, how they survive, especially if they've got children.
00:50 But a lot of the people in the city we live in are so well off they've got no understanding
00:58 about people who are doing it tough.
01:02 I've spent 50 years in Aldwy, Wodonga involved in welfare.
01:09 So as far as I'm concerned I do know what I'm talking about when I say something like that.
01:15 Within this last, before COVID and things like that, we were getting on quite long and now
01:20 within this last two years or so everything just went so dramatically up.
01:24 I think if money is still around but not around enough in the sects where people are spending
01:28 money they're holding back because taxes are going up, logistics are going up, the price
01:33 of their rent, their house, everything is becoming harder and difficult.
01:36 For us it really has dropped a lot of marketing and things because of that situation.
01:41 And look electricity just gets higher and higher and higher.
01:43 The government is trying with these new solar systems and new hot water gas.
01:47 Really, they will give you one thing to help you out but the next thing they'll just pull
01:52 everything up a bit higher and higher and you're still going to end up in the same place anyway.
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