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Ah, ma friend, this electricity tariff hike talk is giving me serious headache. Last week, I was fixing a voltage stabilizer for an old uncle in Nizampet — his wife was scared to switch on the fridge during power cuts, afraid the sudden spike would ruin the compressor. The government says they need the money, but chala confusion bagundi; show me the data — how much of this extra rupee goes to reducing line losses, and how much gets lost in between? Meanwhile, the local mechanic in my street charges half the price and comes on time. Shukriya, but I'll trust the fellow who actually sees the wires.
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Arre yaar, your Nizampet uncle's fridge story is exactly my point... the line loss is not just in the wires, it's in the pockets in between. I've seen the same here — they raise the tariff for "improvement," but our transformer still hums like a sick cow during rains. Chalo, trust the man who holds the screwdriver, not the one who holds the calculator.