聊聊燃气公司换表涨价的事

这几天重庆燃气公司换表变相涨价的，闹得沸沸扬扬。很多人发现在更换新的燃气表之后。天然气的使用量并没有太大的变化，但是燃气费用却大幅上涨。因为有这种体验的用户人数众多，于是很多人合理的怀疑。在换表的时候把表给拨快了。而且人们查看该公司的财务报表也验证了这个理论。报表显示在换表之后，燃气公司的利润大幅上涨。从一开始燃气公司还是矢口否认，翻出了一大堆似是而非的理由。怎么之前人手不够，积压了很多没有完成的收费。因为这件事影响面太广，引起了舆论哗然。相关部门跟进调查，昨天调查结果公布。人们对燃气公司的怀疑得到了证实。确实是燃气公司对燃气表进行了调整，等于是在变相涨价了。其实如果把天然气看作一件商品，企业公司看作一个企业的话，一个企业对自己。有完全自主定价权的。如果因为长期亏损，那么。也完全可以正大光明的涨价。搞不懂燃气公司的高管为什么会用这个偷偷摸摸，而且也并不高明的手段。

如今真相曝光，反倒变得更加被动，网上的舆论已经开始上纲上线，有一种声音，就是要把燃气公司的高管按照欺诈罪追究刑事责任，当然燃气公司是国营企。他们和司法部门一样，都是体制内的成员，不会真的有什么牢狱之灾。我到底要如何看待这件事，最好的角度还是。从正在读的那本米塞斯的官僚体制入手。那么这些让人啼笑皆非的你一般的操作，某些方面就可以理解了。

重庆燃气公司是国营的，甚至被看作是公益事业，不过燃气也并非完全免费提供。居民还是要交煤气费的，所以他的收入。也并非完全来自于政府的拨款，一定程度上还是需要服务于消费者的在过去地方政府依靠房地产的繁荣，喂喂喂。这样燃气公司就可以以比较低的价格来提供天然气，这样的价格也许会造成公司财务上的亏损，但公司的高管也不会在乎。因为政府有足够的财政资金为他们补齐亏空，这样一来对这家经营公益事业的公司来说。也就谈不上所谓的利润核算机制了。公司的经营能力是否能够盈利，亏空多少都对公司的经营人员来说不重要。于是这个名为公司的企业。就沦为一个典型的官僚机构。

岗位和职务的分配。不再按是否能够实现利润为标准，而是逐渐的任人唯亲缺乏利润，考核之后约束下属也只能建立越来越多的规章制度和繁文缛节，造成更加低下的效率。这样一来恶性循环就造成更多的亏损，而对这种官僚化国企的高管来说亏损越大，而可以向政府申请的补贴就越多。那样经手的资金也越多，也就有更多的贪污腐败的机会。有个人的利益来说，反倒是亏损的越多越好。

但这一切都是建立在政府有足够的财政收入的基础上。在过去这一二十年，地方政府主要财政收入是建立在房地产畸形繁荣上面的。如今房地产市场已经进入了萧条周期，土地财政收入已经锐减。而燃气公司之前得到的大量补贴也就没有了，这又让他们重新感受到市场压力和利润核算的考验，这其实是一个好现象，这个时候唯一的解决办法，如果大家还想使用天然气的话，就是允许它涨价。也就是让市场发挥作用，虽然天然气涨价，在短期内会给居民的生活成本带来相当大的提高，但是能够让燃气公司这个官僚机构重新还原为一个企，长期来看有助于降低大家生活成本，这其中的逻辑链条有些复杂，有时间再说。

总之在地方财政已经补贴不了的情况下，涨价是唯一正确的选择，但是燃气公司的高管没有选择正大光明的涨价，而是偷偷摸摸的涨价，说明他们已经完全变成了官僚，而官僚的特点也就是向上级负责，如果公开涨价，就是暴露上级政府财政收入不足的问题，同时因为史官民生特别容易引爆舆论。影响上级政府的证据。所以他决定采取这种偷偷摸摸，哪怕是非常容易戳穿的方式变相涨价，来解决燃气公司目前的财务问题，因为他知道。即使曝光了，要替上级领导背这个锅，向其领导得到他的好处，也就一定会保着他，而这些涨价的成本就让那些毫不知情的居民来承担。另一个重要原因也许是如果光明正大的涨价，居民就会根据涨价后的价格调整，缩减自己的天然气使用量，这样一来燃气公司就无法获得额外的利润了。这其实就是那部非常有名的电视剧，大明王朝宗，非常著名的台词。苦一苦百姓，骂名我来当，不过当了骂名之后，得到了上级领导的赏识，自己的仕途反而大大的光明。

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In the past few days, Chongqing Gas Company has changed its meter and raised prices in disguise, which has caused a lot of uproar. A lot of people find it after replacing it with a new gas meter. The use of natural gas has not changed much, but the cost of gas has risen significantly. Because of the large number of users who have this experience, many people are reasonably skeptical. I turned the watch faster when I changed the meter. And people looking at the company's financial statements also validate this theory. The report shows that the gas company's profits rose sharply after the meter change. From the beginning, the gas company still flatly denied it, and turned up a lot of specious reasons. Why was there not enough manpower before, and there was a backlog of unfinished charges. Because the impact of this incident is too widespread, it has caused an uproar in public opinion. The relevant departments followed up the investigation, and the results of the investigation were announced yesterday. Suspicions about the gas company were confirmed. It is indeed the gas company that has adjusted the gas meter, which is equivalent to a disguised price increase. In fact, if you look at natural gas as a commodity, and a company as a company, a company will be for itself. Have complete discretion in pricing. If because of long-term losses, then. It is also possible to raise the price in a bright way. I don't understand why the executives of the gas company would use this sneaky and not clever method.

Now that the truth has been exposed, it has become more passive, and public opinion on the Internet has begun to go online, and there is a voice that the executives of the gas company should be investigated for criminal responsibility according to the crime of fraud, of course, the gas company is a state-owned enterprise. They, like the judiciary, are members of the system, and there is no real prison sentence. How do I think about this, the best angle is. Start with the book Mises's bureaucracy you're reading. Then these ridiculous and ordinary operations of yours can be understood in some ways.

Chongqing Gas is state-run and is even considered a public good, but gas is not completely free. Residents still have to pay gas bills, so his income. It is not entirely from government grants, to a certain extent, it still needs to serve consumers, and in the past, local governments relied on the prosperity of real estate. This allows the gas company to provide gas at a lower price, which may cause the company to lose money, but the company's executives will not care. Because the government has enough financial funds to cover the shortfall for them, so for this company that runs a public welfare business. There is no so-called profit accounting mechanism. Whether the company's operating ability can be profitable or not, and how much it loses, is not important to the company's management personnel. Hence the name of the company. It is reduced to a typical bureaucracy.

Assignment of posts and duties. It is no longer based on whether profits can be realized, but gradually cronyism lacks profits, and after the assessment, the subordinates can only establish more and more rules and regulations and red tape, resulting in more and more low efficiency. In this way, the vicious circle creates more losses, and the greater the losses for the executives of such bureaucratic SOEs, the more subsidies they can apply to the government. The more money you have in that way, the more opportunities for corruption. In terms of personal interests, the more you lose, the better.

But all this is based on the fact that the government has sufficient fiscal revenue. In the past two decades, the main revenue of local governments has been based on the real estate boom. Now that the real estate market has entered a depression cycle, land revenue has plummeted. And the gas company received a large amount of subsidies before is gone, which makes them feel the test of market pressure and profit accounting again, which is actually a good phenomenon, the only solution at this time, if everyone still wants to use natural gas, is to allow it to increase the price. That is, let the market play a role, although the price of natural gas will bring a considerable increase to the cost of living of residents in the short term, but it can make the gas company bureaucracy revert to an enterprise, which will help reduce everyone's cost of living in the long run.

In short, in the case that the local finance has not been able to subsidize, the price increase is the only correct choice, but the executives of the gas company did not choose the price increase, but the sneaky price increase, indicating that they have completely become bureaucrats, and the characteristics of bureaucrats are responsible to the superiors. Evidence influencing higher levels of government. So he decided to take this sneaky, even if it is very easy to debunk, way to raise prices in disguise to solve the gas company's current financial problems, because he knew. Even if it is exposed, if you have to bear the blame for the superior leader and get his benefits from his leader, he will definitely be protected, and the cost of these price increases will be borne by those residents who do not know it. Another important reason may be that if there is a fair price increase, residents will adjust to the price after the increase and reduce their gas use, so that the gas company will not be able to make additional profits. This is actually the very famous TV series, Ming Dynasty Zong, a very famous line. After suffering the people, I will be infamous, but after being infamy, I have been appreciated by the superior leaders, and my career is very bright.