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Research Firm Claims Most cars still cost more to charge than to fill up with gas
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Why was your bill $700 though?
Is that all new charges for the previous month, is there an unpaid amount from last months bill? If you owed $650 on the last bill and didn't pay it while the new month generated $50 in new charges then yeah your bill will be for $700. Just as an example.
Just saying a number doesn't mean anything. How did you manage to get charged $700.00 for your electric last month?
Edit: dude posted his bill below. His charge for one month is $350
No unpaid balance, just new charges. That was the cost of electricity for the last billing cycle.
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?
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.
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.
It's also in CAD, so it's $262 USD.
Yup, mystery solved.
~~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~~.
Nevermind. This is for two months, and it's CAD. That's completely different than OMG my bill is $700!!
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)
Canada. That's why. I wish OP here had said that originally.
Oh is that why? Why, because we make our power and don't buy it from Canada? 😂
You make your power now? Is that why you're being charged $350 a month to use it? Interesting.
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?
Keep trying dude.