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Originally Posted by Project84
My house is all electric and my bills average $40-50/mon ($70-80 in winter this year, $20-30 in summer last year).
I use an incredibly small amount of energy. I pride myself on that. 
Similar households (friends) and neighbors have told me about their $200-300/mon energy bills. I find it shocking and wonder how in the heck they're racking up that much useage.
I guess I just tough out the seasons. It was 48-50*F in my place most of the winter, summer months the stat is set at 84*F... 77*F when company is coming over. |
Do you live alone, you and the wife, or are there kids also? Are you 23 years old or 55? When I lived alone in my 20s, I had $15-20 electric bills, and $5 gas bills. My wife moved in, she was home all the time, of course she wasn't able to handle temperature extremes as well as I was, and we've both gotten older and feel those extremes more than we used to.
Nowadays, electric bill runs about $40-50/month in the winter, a little less in spring and fall, up to about $100 in summer. Gas runs about $90/month in the winter, about $15 in the summer. That's using CFLs throughout the house, evaporative cooler, an energy-star window AC or two, thermostat set at 66 in the winter (60 at night).
Mind you...this is a 55 year old house with single pane windows and a couple ill-fitting doors.
John
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