• WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m sorry but I simply do not believe your new charges were $700, especially if you “didn’t do anything different”. Did you host a rock festival in your backyard or something? Did you plug in a 12 foot pile of air conditioners on high the entire month on your driveway?

    What state are you in and how many electric heaters are you using this summer?

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      1 year ago

      Lol. I just told you I didn’t do anything different.

      I didn’t do anything odd. We have central ac and ran it conservatively, and had it off for 2 weeks during vacation also.

      We are on 2 month billing cycles, so this is for 60 days. But I said I got blasted with the bill this month, which is in fact the case.

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        1 year ago

        Holy crap, that’s crazy. I stand corrected. There’s got to be an error with this. Have you called the utility? That’s just nuts.

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          1 year ago

          With my job I get other people’s hydro bills to split between upper and lower tenants and I see their bills too. While I find this bill exceptionally high, it’s not really out of whack. This is just what we pay for electricity here (in BC Canada)

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                1 year ago

                You make your power now? Is that why you’re being charged $350 a month to use it? Interesting.

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                  1 year ago

                  We - used by a speaker to refer to himself or herself and one or more other people considered together.

                  Interesting. I wonder if I meant “we” as in Canadians?

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        1 year ago

        So, its not a $700 monthly bill, it’s $350, which is a pretty important detail to leave out.

        2500 kWh is pretty massive though. We have a smaller house but with multiple air window conditioners running we only use roughly 1k a month.

        You’re electricity is actually significantly cheaper than mine, Our base price is the $0.14 kWh, which is lower than the standard rate from the utility company which last I remember was something like $0.23.