Utility Expenses AGAIN

[appnut]

Be forewarned, I'm NOT in a good mood. And since our other two threads along these lines have been bumped off (and that's all I will say), I get to start a new one so just enjoy ha ha ha.

I just got my electric bill. in 2 months (2 billing cycles), my cost per kwh has gone from 0.114 to 0.149. I'll have to live under a blanket or two on my sofa or in my bed. And God forbit, put more on--yuck-to keep from freezing. Bad thing is, I start sneezing and have a tendency to get a cold when tmep is set below 69 or 70--a side-effect of my surgury (for the old-timers remember) 4 years ago last month. And I'm alone :-(

 

[appnut]

The amount I used this past month, would have cost me $70.35, the bill for the same amount just arrived and it was $99.31.

 

[appnut]

The $70.35 bill would have been from June.

 

[petek]

Bob,, have you changed all your lighting over to compact fluoresents instead of regular light bulbs?

 

[appnut]

Pete, yes, all lighting is already compact fluroescents, have been for 3 years.

 

[toggleswitch]

Bob all I can say is oil companies are showing record profits and our president is a Texas oil-man.

Who is he looking after?

Dirty words:
CONSERVATION
SOLAR POWER
INNOVATION

IRAQ is now radioactive to the point that something like 40% of all newborns there are deformed BADLY. FREAKISHLY badly. and it woud take removing two feet of dirt (60cm) off the entire surface of the country to remove it/clean it up.

Do we have nothing better to do than be there?
How about teaching people living in this country a skill, a work ethic, hygiene and sanitation and English?

Sorry to rant and rave.
I am thinking those of us in a cold climate may have to endure a bit more than those south of the Mason-Dixon line.

 

[jmirawm]

Watching the thermostat.

This is against my beliefs as an American. BUT, you better believe that I will be watching this year. <p>sidenote: Has anyone ever noticed that right in the middle of what you believe is a LIE ? <P> be lie ve

 

[lavamat_jon]

FWIW, over here in sunny England gas prices are getting to a record high after predicted gas shortages this winter. There's fears that we can run out of gas by January or so!! Has definitely made me think twice now before turning the central heating on...

Jon

 

[gansky1]

Run out of gas?? How is that possible? When I was in school studying the origins of such fossil fuels and watching the propaganda films produced by "Big Oil & Gas, Inc.", they told us we wouldn't run out of natural gas for 300 years - now there isn't enough to go around? It sounds like a different form of propaganda to me. Dreamed up by the example of the U.S. Ministry of Fear, no doubt. Keep track of the profits of your local gas company, buy some stock if it's a publicly traded company...you'll probably do well.

 

[drmitch]

We were lucky on our gas as our gas company has gas prices locked in till march. And I noticed today that gasoline was down to 2.07 at one station, most were 2.25.

 

[petek]

And whatever happened to all that free atomic energy!!!!
The problem with the natural gas shortfall isn't you and I in our houses using too much, it's the vast amount that is being used by industry and power plants to run generators that in the past would have been built using coal or would have been replaced with nuclear reactors and aren't so much anymore. That basically trashed all the rosy talk about centuries of natural gas and dropped it down to less than 100 years.

 

[toggleswitch]

Great point you make Petie!

IMRO (in my ridiculous opinion, LOL ) burn garbage to make electricity. Solve two problems at once!

 

[foraloysius]

Our garbage is fermented. What's left is burned.

 

[lavamat_jon]

Here's a link to an article about possible gas shortages for the UK (which imports all it's gas) this winter... Thankfully this article published today reveals that a new gas pipeline ahs been opened to avoid any possible fears this winter. (I just learnt of this whilst searching for a link - feel a slight sense of relief!)

Nevertheless, it is some quite scary stuff...

Jon

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Norfolk | Gas pipeline doubles UK imports

 

[lavamat_jon]

Louis,

I've only just noticed that we have the same great taste in wallpaper

Jon

 

[kenmore1978]

gas

So the UK doesn't get gas from the North Sea Fields? Or is that considered to be "imported"?