Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Grant Weasner
Date : Thu Apr 03 2025 05:32 pm

  Re: Re: I watched the 'talk'
  By: Aaron Thomas to Rob Mccart on Thu Apr 03 2025 09:01:56

 >  RM>   >g a wood stove and a gas generator (and a lot less electric.)
 >
 >  RM> Ha.. you are describing my life.. I'm still on the electric grid but
 >  RM> I live in the woods in a very primitive way. I don't have running
 >  RM> water in winter and only cold running water in summer. An outhouse.
 >
 > I mentioned how we have more than 1 floor, but I told my wife "we can sleep downstairs in the winter to stay warm." I'm serious
 > about it, but she has this "let's just pay the bill" attitude.
 >
 >  RM> AT>To me, the $300 electric bill is a wake up call.
 >
 >  RM> My electric bills hit over $500 this winter, but I get a bit of a rebate so I think the highest was $425 or so..
 >
 > That's outrageous. When I first moved into this house I was seeing like $150 in the winter and about $70 in the summer. Now it's
 > around $300 every month, no matter how much gas or electric we use (it's all on 1 bill.)

My heating bills are above $300, last month was $400. I get no rebates. My food bills are about $1000 per month.

The state I live in wants more eletric vehicals, and every time we go over a specific threshold of electricity use we get bumped up into a higher use charge bracket. Now if we have to charge vehicals too, this starts to just drain us.

Sometimes they want us to not use electricity for the day as a challenge and if we do well during the challege we got back $18 in 4 months. In the middle of winter where we are doing what we can to keep our pipes from freezing while simultanously not endulging in decadence without our jackets on in the house.

 > I'm ready to put my foot down (and up the electric company's butt!)

I think we are approaching the time when all we can do is go without or pay the bills.

The thing I don't understand is why does electricity coast so much. I think after the systems are in place, which they've been there for years where I live, they don't require more money to produce the electricity, specifically hydro? Water falling out of the sky doesn't suddenly coast more each year, but somehow electricity does.
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