帶管道或瓶裝氣體的房屋面臨的價格上漲，選擇較少

在新西蘭，有600,00個家庭使用汽油，商業客戶也受到影響。

Consumers using piped or bottled gas are facing increasing prices and fewer choices, while complaints about services have doubled in the last year.

使用管道或瓶裝天然氣的消費者面臨的價格越來越少，選擇較少，而對服務的投訴在去年增加了一倍。

In New Zealand, 600,000 households use gas, and commercial customers were also impacted.

在新西蘭，有60萬戶家庭使用天然氣，商業客戶也受到影響。

The manager of Consumer NZ's Powerswitch service was expecting to see price increases of around 10 percent on average, but he said that will vary.

消費者NZ的PowerSwitch服務經理預計平均價格上漲約10％，但他說這會有所不同。

“The price changes people are seeing will vary considerably depending on [someone's] location and which retailer they're with.”

“人們看到的價格變化會因[某人]的位置以及他們與哪個零售商的不同而異。”

Fuge told Nine to Noon, so far Mercury was the only gas supplier to announce an increase - at 9.7 percent - but Powerswitch has already seen examples of increases up to 20 percent.

Fuge告訴Nine Nine中午，到目前為止，Mercury是唯一宣布增加的天然氣供應商（佔9.7％），但Powerswitch已經看到了高達20％的例子。

Consumers were also being hit in the pocket by daily fixed charges on gas, on top of their electricity charge, he said.

他說，除了電費外，消費者還被每天的汽油固定費用擊中。

“That's what really makes gas uneconomic for households because you end up paying two daily charges rather than one.

“這就是真正使家庭不經濟的原因，因為您最終要支付兩份每日指控，而不是一項指控。

“So you have to have an electricity connection, you can't avoid electricity but you can avoid gas. Unfortunately if you've got a gas connection you end up paying a daily charge, on average about $2 a day, so that really adds up.

“因此，您必須有電力連接，無法避免電力，但可以避免使用汽油。不幸的是，如果您有汽油連接，您最終會每天支付每日費用，每天每天約2美元，這確實加起來了。

“We've had examples of people coming to Powerswitch and asking us why their powerbill is so high and what we've discovered is where they've got a gas connection and they've only got say a gas hob, they end up paying a very high price because their daily charge is way in excess of the gas they're actually using.”

“我們有例子說人們來到Powerswitch並問我們為什麼他們的強力燈較高，我們發現的是他們有汽油連接的地方，而他們只有說煤氣爐，他們最終會付出很高的價格，因為他們的日常費用超過了實際使用的汽油。”

Fuge said while the daily charge was small it could add up to between $800 to $1000 a year.

Fuge說，雖然每日費用很小，但每年的費用可能總計為800至1000美元。

“There's two things happening... the network is getting more expensive.

“有兩件事正在發生……網絡變得越來越昂貴。

“That's because it's an ageing infrastructure and you've got other things like the high cost of replacing infrastructure and the high cost of capital, it's affecting the network charges.

“那是因為它是一個老化的基礎設施，您還有其他事情，例如取代基礎設施的高成本和高昂的資本成本，它會影響網絡費用。

“On top of that you've got scarcity and then, of course, scarcity will increase price. So as the gas reserves get lower and there's more competition for gas,” he said.

他說：“最重要的是，您的價格稀缺，當然，稀缺性會提高價格。因此，隨著天然氣儲量的越來越少，並且有更多的汽油競爭。”

Gas New Zealand, which represented the gas industry, was aware of high prices and difficult market conditions but chief executive, Jeffrey Clarke said there was a strong future for gas as a fuel.

代表天然氣行業的新西蘭天然氣新西蘭已經意識到價格很高和市場狀況艱難，但首席執行官杰弗裡·克拉克（Jeffrey Clarke）表示，天然氣作為燃料的未來有很強的未來。

“So I think the whole gas sector and electricity sector are working to put more supply in and that's the reality.

“因此，我認為整個天然氣部門和電力部門都在努力投入更多的供應，這就是現實。

“We are short on supply. So prices are going up and there's a lot of investment that's needed in the network.”

“我們的供應不足。因此價格上漲，網絡中需要大量投資。”

Clarke said in order to increase the supply he'd like to see more investment in renewable gas which is made from agricultural waste, food waste, wastewater, which releases gas when it decomposes.

克拉克說，為了增加他希望在可再生氣體上進行更多投資的供應，該供應由農業廢物，食物浪費，廢水製成，在分解時會釋放天然氣。

“The reality is that we need gas at the moment to support our electricity system, so we can't do without it.

“現實是，我們目前需要汽油來支持我們的電力系統，因此我們無法沒有它。

“So if you look at the Climate Change Commission's modeling, they assume that we will continue to use gas to support our renewable electricity generation right out to 2050 because we need something to balance off the variability of renewables, so we have to have it.”

“因此，如果您查看氣候變化委員會的建模，他們認為我們將繼續使用天然氣來支持我們的可再生電力發電至2050年，因為我們需要一些東西來平衡可再生能源的可變性，因此我們必須擁有它。”