My older brother is an attorney that works on utility cases. That is his specialty. He warns me of grand increases in the future. Hold on to your wallets!
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We old dogs can learn new tricks. We just may not like performng them. TJ
Electricity is generated by power made from coal or oil. The price of these goes up, the price of electricity goes up. Diesel is over $4.00 a gallon right now. What is heating oil? My wife pays it, so I do not know. But all the utilities are asking for rate increases.
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We old dogs can learn new tricks. We just may not like performng them. TJ
Combining electricity and natural gas, I'm getting about the same cost as yours over the border in Tennessee.
Yeah. I use combo of natural gas, electricity and some LP gas logs in my fireplace to 'knock the chill off'. Guess it's not just me. I just have a hard time dealing with the power going from an average of say $90 to $127 in November...to $138 in December then $200 and $221.
Jeeze. We all bitch about the cost of gas daily, but this is ridiculous.
My combined Electricity/water bill for Feb: $247.20.
For March, it is $164.36.
Winter really kills me. But when I had Propane it was much worse! I had $an average of $50 electric, free water, but the gas would run me $250 or more per month during winter! That danged singlewide had NO insulation, and leaked like a sieve.
I've changed most of my lights to CFL, and dry my clothes on the line - I don't use the drier at all.
Had a water leak in the main toilet - it ran constantly - made a big increase in water bill! I fixed that and the water usage dropped. Come summer and the need for watering the grass and plants - it'll go up again.
Recently the electric co-op gave me a rebate check - about $3 worth . . .
Yeah, I can get a McDees burger and celebrate . . .
You live in Florida. You don't have a winter. You have Summer Part II.
$3! You can get a double cheeseburger, value fries, and biggie tea.
Just giving you a hard time, BD.
What's that...on a senior's meal deal? Biggie...biggie...man, that sounds like MacDonalds. Yeah, a meal deal for seniors and their profit on that $3 treat is $2.79...yeah, hard time...me too lol
Rates have been going up steadily here in the Northeast for years, but they've almost doubled in the last two years. I think I have all of four light bulbs left in this house; everything else is fluorescent and I plan to switch to LEDs as soon as they become available. Even with the change from incandescents to fluorescents, my electric bill is out of sight, and the oil bill is worse. America is in a state of stagflation, and it won't get better any time soon.
All the companies are nickel/ scratch that, dollar billing us to death. Natural gas, gasoline, electricity,propane,diesel. They are all lining their pockets.
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You have to watch those power companies. At my old house the bill averaged 150-200, then one day my parents who were paying my bills at the time called me up and asked why the hell my light bill was 500.00. Come to find out the meter reader had misread my usage. They came and redid it and it was average.
Funny how they always misread in their favor. I've never gotten a 12.00 light bill on accident.
Point is if your bill is abnormal call the power company and complain and ask what your consumption was for the month.
Power in my new house is about the same as my old one except it is about twice the size. "well insulated" Just me and my fiancee live in it so we keep the vents closed in bedroom 2 &3 so our central air dosen't have to run much.
My Natural Gas bill was $ 150.00 even, our Electric bill I'll have to go look later and post.
I for see a day because of Oil a lot of us will go broke or be shut off some day.
My wife is complaining now how much grocerys are costing and it's all going to get higher.
Do yall think we can get Food Samps and rental assistence, entilements ?
A.H
I just paid $120 for an empty house with the temp set at 55°, finally shut the heat off a week ago. Propane at the new house has been filled twice now, once in November and once in February at about $800 the first time and $600 the second time, which works out to $280 a month. Won't use much in the spring and summer, but winter really sucks.
Seven, in north Florida, we see temps in the twenties/thirties for at least two months - it gets chilly! I'm glad I don't live further north.
We generally even see the high teens a couple days!
Luckily this house is much better insulated - but it's still a doublewide, so not that great.
You live in Florida. You don't have a winter. You have Summer Part II.
