Yes, I think we could say that there seems to be something very fishy going on here!

Cheers,
Taos

Dunno why, but for some reason I highly doubt those fish died because of the heat. I don’t have anything to back it up, though, it just seems strange to me that a fish dies because of less than a week of over 33° temperatures.

In any case, if it was hot enough to kill fish (?), you’ve got to give it to De Vido, that it is more than enough to cause a meltdown. I mean, sure, the electric infrastructure is way behind the consumers curve, but it is also not meant to be used as much.

And while the government has frozen prices, it has also subsidized the electric generating companies with billions since 2003. That is, without lowering prices for those in need. In reality, the tax-subsidized companies ended up charging more, by comparison, to the underpriviledged than to the higher classes. Here in Vicente López some paid under 50 a month for electricity. 2009′s budget changed that, and hopefully the situation will improve.

Still, this was a keynesyanmeasure, government subsidizing consumers to avoid further raising inflation and such (yes, they did some things to stop it, beleive it or not). And yes, this discouraged competition between electrical companies to invest more and improve service. But in reality competition never existed, because when the service was privatized, every company was assigned a specific and exclusive area of service, for which it shouldn’t need to compete. So if you have a sure business, why risk investing?