Electrical rates?

[shadeaux]

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justgamma  (1000+ posts)      Thu Sep-15-11 10:31 PM

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Electrical rates?

 My daughter just called upset. Her light bill went up from $200 a month to $350 a month. It's not just her. The whole town is paying that much. It will mean the loss of their home. No way can she afford that.

The most I've ever spent for electricity is $135.

It made me wonder what other people are paying.
 

Lose her home?  Why would she lose her home ?

Obama said energy costs would rise.  Suck it up and pay it like we all do or go without.

Ours was high too but it was hot and if I couldn't afford it I'd keep it on 80.

I don't see any offer from Mom to help. 

[Ballygrl]

My electric bill doubled after the Democrats snuck in a bunch of taxes a few years ago.

[tanstaafl]

My daughter just called upset. Her light bill went up from $200 a month to $350 a month. It's not just her. The whole town is paying that much. It will mean the loss of their home. No way can she afford that.

I don't understand why they are upset.

I grew up without air conditioning. And I hardly ever use it, now. Only on occasion to make sure it still works.
I get by without going over $100 in combined Electric/Nat Gas evey month (actually it averages around $60).

If the cost of heating and cooling are pushing you to the edge of bankruptcy, then you had better survey all household expenses and see what you can cut back on or do without. Adjust the thermostat. Better yet, get a digital, programmable thermostat. Close off the HVAC vents in interior rooms and unused rooms. Ditch the cable or sattelite tv. And the cable internet. Buy generic groceries. Combine car trips to just a single one per week.

One thing I've learned over the years is that life is simple.

edited to correct spelling.

[diesel driver]

I don't understand why they are upset.

I grew up without air conditioning. And I hardly ever use it, now. Only on occasion to make sure it still works.
I get by without going over $100 in combined Electric/Nat Gas evey month (actually it averages around $60).

If the cost of heating and cooling are pushing you to the edge of bankruptcy, then you had better survey all household expenses and see what you can cut back on or do without. Adjust the thermostat. Better yet, get a digital, programmable thermostat. Close off the HVAC vents in interior rooms and unused rooms. Ditch the cable or sattelite tv. And the cable internet. Buy generic groceries. Combine car trips to just a single one per week.

One thing I've learned over the years is that life is simple.

edited to correct spelling.

So are DUmmies.  They "simply" can't survive without government.

[JohnnyReb]

I get a little thing with the bill every month that shows how my electricity use compares to other homes and my own use in the past. Well, my home beats the most efficient homes...I used less this year....and my bill is up about 60%.

Thank you lord Obama for showing me the light....now hold it over this way.

[Freeper]

Did they not hear 0bama say that under his administration electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4

"The regulations will cost money, they will pass that on to consumers."
My guess is the DUmmies didn't pay that any attention, or they thought that consumers meant rich people.

[marv]

...and I get aggravated over a $90 level-payment plan.

EPA and DoE are incompatible with AC and light bulbs.

[NHSparky]

You DUmmies can thank deregulation for that as well.  Guess where it started?  Blue states.

[jukin]

"Under my plan electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket"

B. Husein Obama.

[TVDOC]

"Under my plan electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket"

B. Husein Obama.

Yep....they brought this on themselves by voting for Obama and the Dems........did they think that when Obama said "you can build a coal-fired power plant if you want, but it will soon be bankrupt".....meant that would apply to everyone else but them?

The vast majortiy of electrical generating capacity is coal-fired, and when you have the country run by a bunch of "Global Warming fanatics", this is what you will get.  There is no free lunch DUmmies, you are getting exactly what you asked for......

Just to rub it in DUmmies, here in "red-state hell", my township has its own clean coal powerplant, it's exempt from much of the regulation, and it is non-union......and I'm still paying a nickle a kilowatt-hour for electricity.

doc

[BattleHymn]

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justgamma   (1000+ posts)           Thu Sep-15-11 10:31 PM
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Electrical rates?
   

 
My daughter just called upset. Her light bill went up from $200 a month to $350 a month. It's not just her. The whole town is paying that much. It will mean the loss of their home. No way can she afford that.

The most I've ever spent for electricity is $135.

It made me wonder what other people are paying.

BiggJawn (1000+ posts)             Thu Sep-15-11 11:30 PM
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1. $140.
   
And it's just me, those freedom-hating CFL bulbs, no laundry equipment, no dishwasher, no big-screen TV and Blu-Ray. I do rock the hell out of the air conditioner, though.
I figured we're now paying 11 cents a KwH. Was 5 cents just a few years ago.

dimbear   (1000+ posts)           Fri Sep-16-11 01:11 AM
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3. Usually about fifteen bucks. Sometimes as much as twenty five.
   
That's just me. I don't care much if it's hot, and if it's cold I put on more clothes.

DUmmie dimbear has used a jeweler's bit to drill through the glass casing around his meter, and pinned it with a piece of wire. 

sinkingfeeling   (1000+ posts)             Fri Sep-16-11 12:07 PM
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7. It takes about $300 to cool my 4800 sq. ft. Victorian house when it's 100+ degrees outside.

DUmmie sinkingfeeling gets in a status symbol shot in an electril bill thread. 

TK421   (1000+ posts)           Fri Sep-16-11 12:43 PM
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8. This apartment ( with 3 other roommates ) last month was about $260 something
   
three of us have AC units in our rooms and have tried to use them sparingly, but when it is 90 degrees in your room, you just can't sleep at night. That would roughly be around $50 a person, and still it is way too much..

I think someone needs to reign-in these electric companies, but they seem to be untouchable.

Three window units running "sparingly" (65 degrees on a 90 degree day), and coming up with a $260 bill?  This DUmmie fails to mention the kilowatt/hour rate they are paying, but it's Big Electric's fault his bill is so high.  Surely, it couldn't have anything to do with King Putt using the statist thumb to squash any new power plants or anything.   

RebelOne   (1000+ posts)           Fri Sep-16-11 02:12 PM
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9. I live in a mobile home with two A/Cs.
   
One is in the back bedroom and one is in the living room. They are on 24/7 during the summer and my bill has never been over $100. But wintertime is a different story. My furnace has not worked in years, so I use space heaters. My bill averages $135 in wintertime. But it averages out considering that it costs $300 to fill up my propane tank and the furnace just sucked up that gas.

one_voice   (1000+ posts)           Fri Sep-16-11 11:08 PM
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11. My electric bill is always high...
   
every month 300-350. I just replaced my heat pump with one that's supposed to be more energy efficient. I keep my heat at 68-69 and my air at 75-76. My bill this month was almost $500 and I had the air off for a week. I swear they're cheating somewhere. No way my bill should be that high. Nothing I can do, only one electric company.

My husband works a side job just to pay the electric bill it's ****ing ridiculous.

emilyg   (1000+ posts)           Fri Sep-16-11 11:27 PM
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12. $200/mo on budget billing.

If this is what I think it is, only a DUmmie could fall for such a stupid idea, so I admire the utility companies for doing it.  Around here, we call it "Level Pay":  http://www.cityutilities.net/resident/pmts_billing/levelpay.htm

seabeyond   (1000+ posts)             Sat Sep-17-11 09:54 AM
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16. i dont look. auto pay. but goes mid 200's to 400 in summer and drops in winter to nothing.
   
gas takes its place.

air on electric. heat on gas.

i was excited my water bill mid 200's this summer barely watering yard and not very green and healthy. winter will drop to 50, 60

Someone explain to me how you can not look, and yet also know what you are paying.



Around here in Red State Hell SW MO, we pay what amounts to around 8.5 cents per kilowatt/hour.     

[BattleHymn]

Oops.  Somehow, I missed this one.  Thank you to whomever merged it. 

[Chris_]

All these DUmmies are contributing to global warming.  They should shut off their electricity.

[Doubleplusungood]

All these DUmmies are contributing to global warming.  They should shut off their electricity.

They should stop exhaling CO2 while they are at if they really want to reduce their carbon footprint.

[Evil_Conservative]

We a lot to cool our apartment in the summer.  It's just a two bed, two bath apartment.  The most we ever paid was $250 in the summer.  It does suck.  We never paid that much in Phoenix, but Bush was President when we were living in Arizona.

Our skyrocketing rates have nothing to do with Obama saying that our energy rates would necessarily skyrocket.  None at all.

[Doc]

I think we have to consider where most of these DUmbasses live.......in the deep blue urban areas for the most part, and if not then at least in the blue states.

When we lived in NYC, Con Ed was charging us 21 cents/KWh for electricity, due to lots and lots of taxes and regulations, plus the union labor (that was in 1989, Lord knows what they are charging now).......as I mentioned here in our community the rate is 5 cents, but then here there are no "low income" subsidies, or "free" electricity for Section 8 housing as there is in NYC.......someone has to pay for all of that insipid liberalism......and for once they have to.

Instead of bitching, they should be happy to pay their "fair share" to help out the "poor and underprivledged"...plus supporting union labor.

doc

[shadeaux]

Here in the South, we had 120 degree days and no rain for months.  Unusual weather but you expect it to be hot in the summer months so you adjust your finances.

We tinted the windows last year, combined with blinds and heavy curtains, it helped keep the heat out. I even hung a light blocking shade on top of the blinds in two rooms that get the afternoon blaze of heat.  Amazing how much that helped.

We topped out at $235.  Air running non stop last month. I am not complaining.  I keep my unit on 77 during the day, 72 at night.

If you don't try to minimize the heat, you will get a high bill.

I still don't understand her losing her home unless she's short on rent or behind paying.

I know the date my meter is read and how much my bill will be a week before it arrives. Maybe her daughter needs to sign up on her power company site to track her usage.  That air conditioner eats up a lot of energy but you gotta have it.  The heat here will kill you.

[Texacon]

You know, I wish I had a good mole.  This is the perfect time to compare electric rates with taxes.

Now on to something that blew my mind;

seabeyond   (1000+ posts)             Sat Sep-17-11 09:54 AM
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16. i dont look. auto pay. but goes mid 200's to 400 in summer and drops in winter to nothing.
   
gas takes its place.

air on electric. heat on gas.

i was excited my water bill mid 200's this summer barely watering yard and not very green and healthy. winter will drop to 50, 60

Holy Jeezum Crow!  One of my jobs is to manage a small water/sewer utility.  Our minimum water/sewer bill is $25.50.  I have watered my yard this last month every other day with a built in sprinkler and my bill was $85.00!  I think it is time for us to raise the water rates!!

KC

[GOBUCKS]

DUmmies have high electric bills due to all their grow lights.
It's one of the ways the narcs catch them.

[zeitgeist]

Did they not hear 0bama say that under his administration electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4

"The regulations will cost money, they will pass that on to consumers."
My guess is the DUmmies didn't pay that any attention, or they thought that consumers meant rich people.

Now Freeper, that is really mean spirited of you.  Posting that where some innocent ( or should I say naive) dummy might click on it and get all discombobulated about ObieWun Prince of Darkness.  Think how dissapointed they are gonig to be hearing that of stuff.  

[Lacarnut]

I do not know if the windmills off the coast of MA are operational yet but the rates start out at 27 cents per kw and go up to 33 cents. Mine is 7 cents. Suck it up, you liberal jackasses. I put in Pella windows last year and my bill in big B.R. is less that 80 bucks per month.

[GOBUCKS]

I do not know if the windmills off the coast of MA are operational yet but the rates start out at 27 cents per kw and go up to 33 cents. Mine is 7 cents. Suck it up, you liberal jackasses. I put in Pella windows last year and my bill in big B.R. is less that 80 bucks per month.

33 cents per kwh

7 cents per kwh

The difference between bogus "green" energy, and the real world.
It's pleasing to see New England "progressives" pay the price for their ignorance, as long as they keep it there.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people. Plug in to that algore juice, DUmmies.

[NHSparky]

I am paying some of the highest electrical rates in the country, and I can still manage to keep my bill under $175 with five people in a house with all electric appliances.

Granted, oil is going to destroy me this winter with 1--no prebuys available, 2--current prices are $3.50/gal, and they tend to climb as the season goes on.

http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/fig7p5.html



Notice where it's highest, DUmmies?  And where it's lowest?

[BEG]

I'm pretty sure Texas is off. My parents pay about 9 cent per KWh and I know our rate in CA was over 15 per KWh.

[NHSparky]

I'm pretty sure Texas is off. My parents pay about 9 cent per KWh and I know our rate in CA was over 15 per KWh.

That might be the base rate.  Yeah, I know all about the 35 cents per kWh you're paying at the top tier in CA, but also consider that munis like LADWP and SMUD are paying lower rates.  That figure you see is an average.