TOTD: I cant think of anything .. but i'm just green with envy over your electric bill. i know ouur higher bill was most likely because of the Christmas lights being on from 4:30 to 11 pm every night for almost six weeks..
but in my entire life, i'm fairly sure ive never, ever gotten a $40 electric bill. thats amazing!
I just paid one for $224.00. I was weeping from joy.
You must have an all-electric house.
This is only partial-electric, with the heat and hot water and stove on natural gas.
Nebraska generally has some of the lowest electrical rates in the nation, which Democrats, liberals, and primitives usually attribute to that all electric power is governmentally-supplied; there is no such thing as a private-enterprise electric company in this state, a distinction for which Nebraska is unique.
But the Democrats, liberals, and primitives misunderstand, and if they understood, they would perhaps realize that the LAST thing most places, especially the blue states and blue cities, should have is governmentally-supplied power.
If they think Boston Gas & Electric or San Francisco Power & Light is high, if they had public power, it'd even be higher. Imagine the "cut" the politicians would demand in those places, the "cut" of the action, if these things were governmentally-operated.
"Socialism" works only in small places where everybody knows everybody else, which is generally true of Nebraska, where everybody's always on the lookout for someone who might be dipping into the public trough a little too much. Vigilence, personal and formal; they don't have that in blue states and blue cities, or even in some of the large red states (too many people).
Nebraska has public power because from circa 1890-1940, the dominant American electrical company (Bond & Share) of the time refused to supply the state because the area was so vast and the "market" so tiny.
At various times, Bond & Share indicated, yes, they would "invest" in Nebraska, but at only highway-robbery rates.
Other small places (small in population, large in area)--Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming--paid those exorbitant rates, paid through the nose and then some, but Nebraska didn't want to have anything to do with it. Better the kerosene lantern and wood-burning stove, than to enrich Wall Street bankers.
In 1940, Nebraska was the least-electrified of the then-48 states; by 1960, Nebraska was the most-electrified of all 50 states, and it remains the same today. All electricity in Nebraska, every watt of it, is supplied by county or regional public-power districts.
We wired ourselves.
It works good here--obviously--but I would NOT recommend any larger place, especially any place with a long and sordid history of political corruption, do it. If they think electrical rates are high under private enterprise, well, wait until the inner-city machines take it over, and take their cut of the action.
