Here in Loja Province we had a couple of weeks of 12 hour outages, before that standard 8 hours a day, and my bill did not change, until this month when it was reduced a dollar. I think they gave my dollar to you. Due to the horrible fire here we have had constant electricity for a week but return to power cuts in the next day or so. I think Ecuador is facing some very serious troubles in the near future because of all of this. Businesses and manufacturing have been severely crippled and we will feel this soon. Thanks for all you do... love your channel.
Great content, it's always good to find some Ecuadorian content in the English language, most Ecuadorians consider English as not so necessary (sadly). I'm from Portoviejo city and lately blackouts have stopped but I'm still afraid of turning on my computer and damaging it if a blackout catches it.
My building in Cuenca has a generator. It is designed so that as soon as the street power the generator kick in. The upkeep and the fuel cost to operate the generator are paid by the condo owners - there are no additional charges for the use of the generator. With that being said, my last electric bill - where for weeks, half of the day we were on generator power - was $35 was the highest it has ever been (typically $32). Since the generator activates (and deactivates) automatically, my refrigerator never loses power and doesn't have to work more to refreeze the food (while the generator is on, it is operating free of cost). I don't do laundry while we are on generator (as was requested of everyone by the administrator), I only do it when we are on street power. However, I only have a fixed amount of laundry - I do the same amount of washings every week - so it doesn't matter if there are apagones or not. Therefore, doing "extra" laundry isn't increasing my electric bill. Last month it was announced that the for the November bill, everyone's bill would be credited for any usage of up to 180 kWh. Interestingly, my bills are typically right around 180 kWh. I'll find out in a few days when the factura is generated. Given that the majority of power is hydroelectric and dependent upon rain (and the plants do not operate correctly or near stated capacity), there will be no easy fix. My plan would be to build geothermal electric plants. And if possible, build them in close proximity to existing hydroelectric plants so the the existing transmission infrastructure could be used. That would reduce overall costs as well as speed up operational time. Perhaps, with such a setup, the plants could be used to augment each other.
Such a frustrating situation! The utility bills and phone bills should be reduced, and overpayments should be refunded. Anything less is adding insult to injury. Hopefully, enough people will speak out and these service providers will act accordingly.
I AM NOT THAT ONE PERSON.... but... having less hours to consume Watts does not necessarily mean you WILL consume less Watts. We had the same type of power bill. But when my power returns, my wife rushes to do laundry, charge rechargeable things, use the coffeemaker and the water pump etc etc. We do the same stuff mostly, but its compressed in time. But its about the same watts. And you get charged for them watts. And... you will hate this.... we replaced our old fridge last year with a LARGER but more efficient new one. It dropped our bill (back when there were no apagones) more than $30 per month. Yeah.... I am still waiting for when Noboa said he would cover the power bills for Nov, Dec, and Jan. It's totally fine to complain, and yeah get passionate about it.
No worries, I know you’re not THAT ONE PERSON lol, they would probably just say I’m wrong without much more than that. It just feels really unjustified on our end because there are so many things we would be doing that just aren’t being done without power. For example turning on the air. Since I haven’t had power when I’m at home, I’ve just stuck to napping on the floor to feel fresh and that’s been like 2-4 hours of me there (multiply that by days in the month) where normally I’d have the air on during that time. I could go into every detail of things we just don’t do that aren’t exactly being compensated as soon as the power comes back but then this would turn into an essay 😂 I do not hate that at all, if anything now I’m going to see if in the future I save up for one of those new more energy efficient fridges. There are a lot of things I want to upgrade but the crisis isn’t only energy related when you’re working here unfortunately. I’m still waiting to see what comes next, depending on that my “Should you visit Ecuador in 2025” video might either be really good or really unfortunate. Thanks for your feedback and for checking the video out!
@@GMAceM I will not complain because we have a generator and backup batteries, and I am super thankful. But when the power goes out at night, I basically just want to go to bed instead of trying to deal with it. And it adds a lot of extra work to my already full day just to maintain this stuff. And sure, it will end someday (December? Doubtful). We are already planning out a full solar system... and as I do, I question why the government has not removed import fees on power generation equipment like solar.
I'm not understanding you reason on 'having less hours to consume Watts does not necessarily mean you WILL consume less Watts.' The whole premise of having blackouts is to save power. If less time available didn't result in less watts consumed, there would be no point to having a blackout. That said, our current midnight-6am cuts affect us very little, as we're sleeping, but things like white noise fans and power to the router/computers/phones/tablets are all affected.
@@lapeliroja3254 Well, it does save power. See that their bill went down by $30 or so that first month of apagones. But then it flattened and stabilized. If they did not have blackouts, the electricity use would go back to pre-apagones levels. The blackouts are to reduce and keep the usage at a barely sustainable level. Because there are SOME uses that you cannot compress into the time that the power returns. Like AC. I can't use AC for 9 hours when I only have power for 4. But I can do 4 loads of laundry, just like I would do if I had power all day. The BIGGEST savings is probably with the industrial sector. They cannot do more mining in a time period than they already do. I hope I explained that well. GM Ace is better at explaining than I am.
I own a house in Miami beach that's 1500 square feet and my electric bill is less expensive than Ecuador I pay 90$ to 110$ a month and I have the air conditioner on 24 hours a day 7 days a week
You are right. The entire is being run by a bunch of clowns beginning with the banana boy. Here's and idea, how about if Movistar and Claro begin to pay their back taxes to SRI which I think amounts to about 200 million total for both of them.
The best way to get through the crisis would be to raide the prices. That way everyone could conserve in their own way and always have electricity when they really need it. I'm aware that many would say that's unfair because the more well off wouldn't be very affected, but the ones who can afford generators are of course the more well off. And then those who use generators pay more anyway because gas generators are less efficient, and so does everyone, rich or poor, indirectly. And then when the crisis is over, all those generators sit idle when the money to pay for them could have been saved. So the general point is that market forces and realistic pricing solve problems while rationing causes problems both short and long term. That's always hard to hear in the world of politics, but that sort of thinking should be promoted. It worked for Milei, so it can work anywhere.
My electricity went up 2.5x with the same usage in Cotacachi. I know, I know, still less than the United States, but last time I checked, this isn't the United States.
Hola, Ace. Qué lástima escuchar que aparte de no brindar el servicio, nos estafan con la factura. En lo personal no he visto incremento en mi factura (tampoco decrecimiento), pero hay suficientes testimonios para darse cuenta que algo no anda bien en el cobro de la factura. Da más pena que no sea el único problema grave que tenemos como país (inseguridad, perdida de empleo, migración, etc). Pero lo peor es escuchar a los demás repetir que "no es culpa del gobierno, es la naturaleza", como si no fuera su culpa el montón de mentiras y promesas rotas. El futuro se ve negro, pero si no lo solucionamos nosotros los ecuatorianos, nadie más lo hará. Basta de alcahuetear a los payasos que tenemos como gobernantes y dejemos de limitar nuestra participación política a simplemente un voto. Protestar NO es terrorismo.
WOW, miren nada más, un gringo en tierras Ecuatorianas. Un gusto que le des voz a este problema para que así se enteren los anglosajones y vean lo pedante que es Nobita. Un gusto encontrar tu canal.
Yeah, similar happened to me- last month the bill I got was $18 and on normal months I pay around 12-13$, and this month the bill was around $14 even though we have had weeks of very intense power cuts. I imagine they are going to try and say that they had to "raise the rate per megawatt hour" in order to keep the big hydro centers functional or something like that in order to justify the very OBVIOUS incongruence. SUPPOSEDLY, they are going to credit every household with 180MW starting with the bills that will come next month- if they do that then I should not have to pay anything. They have been saying they will start doing this since August, BTW, but they haven't yet. I personally think this is a multi-pronged situation; I think the gov has seen dollar signs in this drought and has taken advantage of the situation to both trash the big hydro centers instead of investing in repairing them AND to parcel out the energy sector to a variety of private companies for like, 200 mw here, another 50 mw there, etc. This is also going to lead to lucrative mining deals given the emphasis they are putting on thermo/gas. In other words, it seems to me to be a chance for a cash grab on all sides.
In brief, I would be totally POed. I never would have guessed phone service. Here in the States, we only need electricity to charge phones. As for the electicity, I was thinking they raised rates to pay Colombia, but then you clarified this was filmed on October 31, 2024 so that wouldn't be the reason. I'm surprised the man didn't tell your dad that he was underbilled for the 2 prior months and tell him to expect a new bill in a few days. J/K😅
Are they using smartmeters there in Ecuador or is someone manually taking a reading from the meter on the side of the house ? If so sometimes they only read the meter every second month and do an estimate of the unchecked month. So if that is the case you will find the next month will be very small.
Not to be that person, but here we have different prices for a kWh depending on the time of day (or how it was generated). Typically if the wind is good or the sun is out, then the price of power drops (have even seen negative prices, but the cost of transport makes it a positive cost anyways). So did the cost per kWh change given that imports needed to be done? Did you consume the same amount of kWh but in a compressed timeframe?
Curious to know if the rate per KWh has increased…or if that the KWh usage is up for your October bill…or both? Or if they are somehow charging a one-off fee that is related to keeping the power company in operation due to the lack or rain.
Up by a dollar? Pfft. I paid $12 the month previous to the 14-hour outages. On the month of the 14-hour outages, I was charged $32. When you live in a country where 1+1≠2, anything is possible. You might call it a scam, but those in charge will call it creative accounting.
These are all symptoms of a greater problem, which is undeniable...the cultural tendency to think only in the moment, ie 'worry about today, today, worry about tomorrow another day'. Time after time, we see it here..when things are going ok, things like maintenance stops, forward thinking stops, etc. Case in point, country is heavily (overly) dependent on hydro-electric. That's all well and good, but what about when there's a drought? Other case in point, why hasn't geothermal been developed? Ecuador has a HUGE availability of geothermal, mostly untapped. And of course we see all these "plans" come to the forefront in a crisis, but I guarantee you as soon as the rains return, all of those will be cancelled and any monies received quietly pocketed. Just a way of life we have to accept here, don't like it but we are forced to live with it.
People don't get their jobs by merit and so they don't take the responsibility seriously. It's all over, bottom to top. This country offers jobs on the basis of more like a beauty contest.
Just as companies expect us, as the consumers, to pay for services rendered, I expect them, as the service providers, to render services for the payments I make. Así como las empresas esperan que nosotros, como consumidores, paguemos por los servicios prestados, yo espero que ellas, como proveedores de servicios, me presten servicios por los pagos que yo hago.
What I find weird is that the majority of every Ecuadorian that I speak to, says the same thing, word for word. “Es que es por la madre naturaleza”. I get that nature can’t be controlled, but at the same time, it looks like the corrupt govt officials are just not doing anything about it, and please don’t say that they can’t do anything. If cities/countries like Las Vegas and Dubai can exist, why can’t Ecuador solve this issue?? The technology to produce rain exists, it’s a matter of how much are they willing to pay for it, and it looks like the govt won’t choose that route. And my conspiracy theory is that all the problems really blew up after the Mexican embassy incident, months ago. I just don’t understand how the Ecuadorian people continue to take this, when it hasn’t been the norm for decades. Just hope everything works out, but at this rate, it looks like the majority will adjust and continue to take this abuse.
@@edwarddiaz1130 Blame the power outages on the lack of rain falls apart when you see the drought also affects Perú and Colombia where they dont have 10 hours of blackouts every day.
Buen video, pero el hecho de hacerlo en inglés es solo para que los gringos se indignen y creo que falta que la gente del propio ecuador se indigne y dejen de pensar que no es culpa del gobierno. Y pues la gente piensa que no merece vivir bien, ni vivir con dignidad
@@ANDREWOBRIEN-q2k holy crap dude - go back to school. Different items have different draws at different times. If they have to re cool their houses - those units will constantly SUCK - kinda like you and this stupid post and advertisement that we've descended into Idiocracy.
@@ANDREWOBRIEN-q2k🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 right. Because draws don't fluctuate and needs don't change. Don't know where my more accurate response went. You draw MORE power when you have to continually reheat/recool. Not measured in hours.
Unfortunately we get what we pay for. Years with 0.09 usd/kWh, an unrealistic and unsustainable tariff, has lead us to a multilevel failure of the electrical system. If a president tries to increase the cost to a technically-sound value, you have protests and chaos. We should first complain the tariff is too low and heavily subsidized, then about the quality of service... wishful thinking though.
Sounds like you have had enough down there Ace. Maybe time you move back to the US where things work. You starting to sound like a whining Ex-Pat that is expecting a developing country to act like a more developed country. It aint so. It is what it is.
Why would you make a comment like this? I live here, and certainly afford to pay the increase, even though it's not fair. But what about all the Ecuadorian people? The ones that are working 6-7 day workweeks in order to put food on the table. The ones that pinch every penny till blood comes out of Lincoln's nose? The original poster is right to wonder and dislike the abuse by the government that is currently affecting all, expat and citizen alike.
Ace, I feel you 💯! You're thinking is logical but the power and phone companies do not use logic. They use greed as the basis for consumer cost.
So, how do they manipulate your electric meter to make it run faster?
Here in Loja Province we had a couple of weeks of 12 hour outages, before that standard 8 hours a day, and my bill did not change, until this month when it was reduced a dollar. I think they gave my dollar to you. Due to the horrible fire here we have had constant electricity for a week but return to power cuts in the next day or so. I think Ecuador is facing some very serious troubles in the near future because of all of this. Businesses and manufacturing have been severely crippled and we will feel this soon. Thanks for all you do... love your channel.
I don't have a voice because I'm a foreigner. But thanks for pointing out the elephant in the room. And denounce it.
Great content, it's always good to find some Ecuadorian content in the English language, most Ecuadorians consider English as not so necessary (sadly). I'm from Portoviejo city and lately blackouts have stopped but I'm still afraid of turning on my computer and damaging it if a blackout catches it.
My building in Cuenca has a generator. It is designed so that as soon as the street power the generator kick in. The upkeep and the fuel cost to operate the generator are paid by the condo owners - there are no additional charges for the use of the generator. With that being said, my last electric bill - where for weeks, half of the day we were on generator power - was $35 was the highest it has ever been (typically $32). Since the generator activates (and deactivates) automatically, my refrigerator never loses power and doesn't have to work more to refreeze the food (while the generator is on, it is operating free of cost). I don't do laundry while we are on generator (as was requested of everyone by the administrator), I only do it when we are on street power. However, I only have a fixed amount of laundry - I do the same amount of washings every week - so it doesn't matter if there are apagones or not. Therefore, doing "extra" laundry isn't increasing my electric bill.
Last month it was announced that the for the November bill, everyone's bill would be credited for any usage of up to 180 kWh. Interestingly, my bills are typically right around 180 kWh. I'll find out in a few days when the factura is generated.
Given that the majority of power is hydroelectric and dependent upon rain (and the plants do not operate correctly or near stated capacity), there will be no easy fix. My plan would be to build geothermal electric plants. And if possible, build them in close proximity to existing hydroelectric plants so the the existing transmission infrastructure could be used. That would reduce overall costs as well as speed up operational time. Perhaps, with such a setup, the plants could be used to augment each other.
Such a frustrating situation! The utility bills and phone bills should be reduced, and overpayments should be refunded. Anything less is adding insult to injury. Hopefully, enough people will speak out and these service providers will act accordingly.
Boycott works!
I AM NOT THAT ONE PERSON.... but... having less hours to consume Watts does not necessarily mean you WILL consume less Watts. We had the same type of power bill. But when my power returns, my wife rushes to do laundry, charge rechargeable things, use the coffeemaker and the water pump etc etc. We do the same stuff mostly, but its compressed in time. But its about the same watts. And you get charged for them watts.
And... you will hate this.... we replaced our old fridge last year with a LARGER but more efficient new one. It dropped our bill (back when there were no apagones) more than $30 per month.
Yeah.... I am still waiting for when Noboa said he would cover the power bills for Nov, Dec, and Jan. It's totally fine to complain, and yeah get passionate about it.
No worries, I know you’re not THAT ONE PERSON lol, they would probably just say I’m wrong without much more than that. It just feels really unjustified on our end because there are so many things we would be doing that just aren’t being done without power. For example turning on the air. Since I haven’t had power when I’m at home, I’ve just stuck to napping on the floor to feel fresh and that’s been like 2-4 hours of me there (multiply that by days in the month) where normally I’d have the air on during that time. I could go into every detail of things we just don’t do that aren’t exactly being compensated as soon as the power comes back but then this would turn into an essay 😂
I do not hate that at all, if anything now I’m going to see if in the future I save up for one of those new more energy efficient fridges. There are a lot of things I want to upgrade but the crisis isn’t only energy related when you’re working here unfortunately.
I’m still waiting to see what comes next, depending on that my “Should you visit Ecuador in 2025” video might either be really good or really unfortunate.
Thanks for your feedback and for checking the video out!
@@GMAceM I will not complain because we have a generator and backup batteries, and I am super thankful. But when the power goes out at night, I basically just want to go to bed instead of trying to deal with it. And it adds a lot of extra work to my already full day just to maintain this stuff. And sure, it will end someday (December? Doubtful). We are already planning out a full solar system... and as I do, I question why the government has not removed import fees on power generation equipment like solar.
I'm not understanding you reason on 'having less hours to consume Watts does not necessarily mean you WILL consume less Watts.' The whole premise of having blackouts is to save power. If less time available didn't result in less watts consumed, there would be no point to having a blackout. That said, our current midnight-6am cuts affect us very little, as we're sleeping, but things like white noise fans and power to the router/computers/phones/tablets are all affected.
@@lapeliroja3254 Well, it does save power. See that their bill went down by $30 or so that first month of apagones. But then it flattened and stabilized. If they did not have blackouts, the electricity use would go back to pre-apagones levels. The blackouts are to reduce and keep the usage at a barely sustainable level. Because there are SOME uses that you cannot compress into the time that the power returns. Like AC. I can't use AC for 9 hours when I only have power for 4. But I can do 4 loads of laundry, just like I would do if I had power all day. The BIGGEST savings is probably with the industrial sector. They cannot do more mining in a time period than they already do.
I hope I explained that well. GM Ace is better at explaining than I am.
I own a house in Miami beach that's 1500 square feet and my electric bill is less expensive than Ecuador I pay 90$ to 110$ a month and I have the air conditioner on 24 hours a day 7 days a week
Power in most parts of the world is more expensive than in the USA. It's just a fact. Same with petrol.
You are right. The entire is being run by a bunch of clowns beginning with the banana boy. Here's and idea, how about if Movistar and Claro begin to pay their back taxes to SRI which I think amounts to about 200 million total for both of them.
The best way to get through the crisis would be to raide the prices. That way everyone could conserve in their own way and always have electricity when they really need it. I'm aware that many would say that's unfair because the more well off wouldn't be very affected, but the ones who can afford generators are of course the more well off. And then those who use generators pay more anyway because gas generators are less efficient, and so does everyone, rich or poor, indirectly.
And then when the crisis is over, all those generators sit idle when the money to pay for them could have been saved.
So the general point is that market forces and realistic pricing solve problems while rationing causes problems both short and long term.
That's always hard to hear in the world of politics, but that sort of thinking should be promoted. It worked for Milei, so it can work anywhere.
My electricity went up 2.5x with the same usage in Cotacachi. I know, I know, still less than the United States, but last time I checked, this isn't the United States.
Hola, Ace. Qué lástima escuchar que aparte de no brindar el servicio, nos estafan con la factura. En lo personal no he visto incremento en mi factura (tampoco decrecimiento), pero hay suficientes testimonios para darse cuenta que algo no anda bien en el cobro de la factura. Da más pena que no sea el único problema grave que tenemos como país (inseguridad, perdida de empleo, migración, etc). Pero lo peor es escuchar a los demás repetir que "no es culpa del gobierno, es la naturaleza", como si no fuera su culpa el montón de mentiras y promesas rotas.
El futuro se ve negro, pero si no lo solucionamos nosotros los ecuatorianos, nadie más lo hará. Basta de alcahuetear a los payasos que tenemos como gobernantes y dejemos de limitar nuestra participación política a simplemente un voto. Protestar NO es terrorismo.
WOW, miren nada más, un gringo en tierras Ecuatorianas. Un gusto que le des voz a este problema para que así se enteren los anglosajones y vean lo pedante que es Nobita.
Un gusto encontrar tu canal.
Mexico no se olvida lo que hicieron!!! el gobierno ecuatoriano, encima de eso él no parece anglosajon
@@dennisestradda9746 Si quieres guardar pesares es problema tuyo.
My electric bill for a 2/1 in Manta was never more than $30.
Why such a difference?
It's boboa's criminal government.
Yeah, similar happened to me- last month the bill I got was $18 and on normal months I pay around 12-13$, and this month the bill was around $14 even though we have had weeks of very intense power cuts. I imagine they are going to try and say that they had to "raise the rate per megawatt hour" in order to keep the big hydro centers functional or something like that in order to justify the very OBVIOUS incongruence. SUPPOSEDLY, they are going to credit every household with 180MW starting with the bills that will come next month- if they do that then I should not have to pay anything. They have been saying they will start doing this since August, BTW, but they haven't yet.
I personally think this is a multi-pronged situation; I think the gov has seen dollar signs in this drought and has taken advantage of the situation to both trash the big hydro centers instead of investing in repairing them AND to parcel out the energy sector to a variety of private companies for like, 200 mw here, another 50 mw there, etc. This is also going to lead to lucrative mining deals given the emphasis they are putting on thermo/gas. In other words, it seems to me to be a chance for a cash grab on all sides.
In brief, I would be totally POed. I never would have guessed phone service. Here in the States, we only need electricity to charge phones. As for the electicity, I was thinking they raised rates to pay Colombia, but then you clarified this was filmed on October 31, 2024 so that wouldn't be the reason. I'm surprised the man didn't tell your dad that he was underbilled for the 2 prior months and tell him to expect a new bill in a few days. J/K😅
Find a good lawyer and sue them
Are they using smartmeters there in Ecuador or is someone manually taking a reading from the meter on the side of the house ? If so sometimes they only read the meter every second month and do an estimate of the unchecked month. So if that is the case you will find the next month will be very small.
I'm not sure how the process is done, but I've never seen a meter reader in the 4 years I've lived here, and the meters look anything but 'smart'.
Not to be that person, but here we have different prices for a kWh depending on the time of day (or how it was generated).
Typically if the wind is good or the sun is out, then the price of power drops (have even seen negative prices, but the cost of transport makes it a positive cost anyways).
So did the cost per kWh change given that imports needed to be done?
Did you consume the same amount of kWh but in a compressed timeframe?
Curious to know if the rate per KWh has increased…or if that the KWh usage is up for your October bill…or both? Or if they are somehow charging a one-off fee that is related to keeping the power company in operation due to the lack or rain.
Up by a dollar? Pfft.
I paid $12 the month previous to the 14-hour outages.
On the month of the 14-hour outages, I was charged $32.
When you live in a country where 1+1≠2, anything is possible.
You might call it a scam, but those in charge will call it creative accounting.
The government said this will be better in January? What is going to change?
These are all symptoms of a greater problem, which is undeniable...the cultural tendency to think only in the moment, ie 'worry about today, today, worry about tomorrow another day'. Time after time, we see it here..when things are going ok, things like maintenance stops, forward thinking stops, etc. Case in point, country is heavily (overly) dependent on hydro-electric. That's all well and good, but what about when there's a drought? Other case in point, why hasn't geothermal been developed? Ecuador has a HUGE availability of geothermal, mostly untapped. And of course we see all these "plans" come to the forefront in a crisis, but I guarantee you as soon as the rains return, all of those will be cancelled and any monies received quietly pocketed. Just a way of life we have to accept here, don't like it but we are forced to live with it.
50000000 time worse in USA.
Why aren’t people using solar in Ecuador 🇪🇨?????
expensive
To expensive technology. Even more now, mercants are increasing the prices now that people need that devices.
People don't get their jobs by merit and so they don't take the responsibility seriously. It's all over, bottom to top. This country offers jobs on the basis of more like a beauty contest.
Just as companies expect us, as the consumers, to pay for services rendered, I expect them, as the service providers, to render services for the payments I make.
Así como las empresas esperan que nosotros, como consumidores, paguemos por los servicios prestados, yo espero que ellas, como proveedores de servicios, me presten servicios por los pagos que yo hago.
What I find weird is that the majority of every Ecuadorian that I speak to, says the same thing, word for word. “Es que es por la madre naturaleza”. I get that nature can’t be controlled, but at the same time, it looks like the corrupt govt officials are just not doing anything about it, and please don’t say that they can’t do anything. If cities/countries like Las Vegas and Dubai can exist, why can’t Ecuador solve this issue?? The technology to produce rain exists, it’s a matter of how much are they willing to pay for it, and it looks like the govt won’t choose that route. And my conspiracy theory is that all the problems really blew up after the Mexican embassy incident, months ago. I just don’t understand how the Ecuadorian people continue to take this, when it hasn’t been the norm for decades. Just hope everything works out, but at this rate, it looks like the majority will adjust and continue to take this abuse.
@@edwarddiaz1130 Blame the power outages on the lack of rain falls apart when you see the drought also affects Perú and Colombia where they dont have 10 hours of blackouts every day.
Buen video, pero el hecho de hacerlo en inglés es solo para que los gringos se indignen y creo que falta que la gente del propio ecuador se indigne y dejen de pensar que no es culpa del gobierno. Y pues la gente piensa que no merece vivir bien, ni vivir con dignidad
Power is not measured in time
It's literally measured in kilowatt-hours (kWh). WTF are you even talking about? 😂
@@ANDREWOBRIEN-q2k holy crap dude - go back to school. Different items have different draws at different times. If they have to re cool their houses - those units will constantly SUCK - kinda like you and this stupid post and advertisement that we've descended into Idiocracy.
@@ANDREWOBRIEN-q2k🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 right. Because draws don't fluctuate and needs don't change. Don't know where my more accurate response went. You draw MORE power when you have to continually reheat/recool. Not measured in hours.
Unfortunately we get what we pay for. Years with 0.09 usd/kWh, an unrealistic and unsustainable tariff, has lead us to a multilevel failure of the electrical system. If a president tries to increase the cost to a technically-sound value, you have protests and chaos. We should first complain the tariff is too low and heavily subsidized, then about the quality of service... wishful thinking though.
Sounds like you have had enough down there Ace. Maybe time you move back to the US where things work. You starting to sound like a whining Ex-Pat that is expecting a developing country to act like a more developed country. It aint so. It is what it is.
Why would you make a comment like this? I live here, and certainly afford to pay the increase, even though it's not fair. But what about all the Ecuadorian people? The ones that are working 6-7 day workweeks in order to put food on the table. The ones that pinch every penny till blood comes out of Lincoln's nose? The original poster is right to wonder and dislike the abuse by the government that is currently affecting all, expat and citizen alike.
Yeah. It is bad to wish that a country worked like it should. We are so fool for wanting to not live in misery...