Comment by hellisothers
6 months ago
My bill last month was $450 and I don’t own an AC, it was around $350 before I got a plug in hybrid but every year it goes up double digit percentages.
6 months ago
My bill last month was $450 and I don’t own an AC, it was around $350 before I got a plug in hybrid but every year it goes up double digit percentages.
I'm curious what your major costs are, then? Without AC, pretty sure our costs were not even half that.
Granted, my memory is largely from when we lived in a smaller house.
PG&E charges about 50c per kWh. It's not very hard to have an electric bill that high when electricity costs ~5x the national average.
Ish? I'm still not clear where you would be using that much electricity.
I'm not claiming that you don't. Or that you shouldn't. I'm genuinely curious on where the main use of electricity is.
To add numbers, an AC can use up to 5000 watts. That is literally 10x a refrigerator. Over 100x what a TV uses. The car, I'd guess is using a lot. But where are you using that much energy without AC?
That is, even compared to your 5x energy costs, I should have been paying more to keep a decent sized house running with AC in GA since I almost certainly had more than that multiplier on my usage?
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