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(09-29-2021, 12:56 PM)TroyKidd Wrote: (09-28-2021, 05:47 PM)lrrps21 Wrote: (09-28-2021, 05:34 PM)Sanitarian2 Wrote: IÂ have Central Air and the wife keeps the house at 71F, lights on all the time and my electric bill has never hit $150.
Water $15.71, sewage $10.53 and electric at $101.21 this month, Gas for water heater only, no bill yet. We pay a per bag garbage fee which is $1.70, use three bags a month, drop off recycling center. Winter Gas bill for furnace/water heater might run $125-150 in colder months.
I pay $75 4x a year for water. I pay $150 2x a year for garbage removal and sewer. I pay $0 for property taxes. Those will be $24,000 this year for the poor folks who do have to pay.
Where do you live?
Princeton, NJ.
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(09-29-2021, 01:54 PM)wydileie Wrote: $54K for a house that has only $150/month in energy bills is way overpriced. What KWH was he trying to sell you? It must have been pushing 25.
I don't recall the actual KWH, but he was telling me the average house on my street was spending $450-$800 per month on PSE&G utilities. My neighbor does spend $600 per month. Solar panels would save me money. Until I showed him 12 months of PSE&G utilities bills. He was actually very surprised. I walked him around the bottom floor of the house to show him how I zone cool/heat. Japanese and Koreans have been doing this for decades. It finally was possible in the US when the heat pump on the compressor was able to keep up with temps that dipped to -20 F. It doesn't get this cold on a regular basis for me to be concerned about the heat pump dying.
DC is a symptom, not the cause. The cause is basic voter stupidity and economic ignorance.