Complaining about the power bill is more of a winter activity but still, here I am.
It's now official. In New Zealand we have more to cry about than most.
Kiwi power prices have increased at twice the rate of most other countries during the past three decades.
A book from Victoria University researcher Geoff Bertram, Evolution of Global Electricity Markets, claims New Zealand's power prices are now more than twice what they were 30 years ago, in real terms.
In the United States, Britain, Japan, France and South Korea, inflation-adjusted power prices are below what they were in the mid-1980s.