Got My Gas Bill Yesterday.

What was you bill before the wood stove?

There you go, 200 bucks and a lot warmer with rate increases! If you want to save even more try to get the Ol lady to take cold showers :lol:

I have gas water heater, gas dryer, gas stove, gas furnace, a wife that wears too many cloths, 2 kids under 4 that spill on everything, but she likes to cook! My gas bill is usually 40-55 bucks in the winter. Electric runs about 70.

AOD said:

Mine was $18.63 last month.

I rule.

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Lol, mine was $16.95. It would have been $13.00(no usage), but my cat turned up the thermostat one day which caused the heat to come on for a little while before I came home.

neverrude said:

burntime said:

There you go, 200 bucks and a lot warmer with rate increases! If you want to save even more try to get the Ol lady to take cold showers :lol:

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I’ll print out your suggestion and hand it to her when I’m walking out the door and then run. :gulp: ..... :lol:

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I see you have been married for a while!

AOD said:

How does your cat turn up your thermostat?

I am stuck with a $10 "customer charge" which I don't like. I should call and complain, and threaten to disconnect unless they drop it. Only thing I really need gas for is when I go away overnight in the winter.

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It was my stupidity. The thermostat was located very close to the stove so I wired up another one in our bedroom, which is much further from the stove (disconnected the one near the stove). This way the heat can kick on if it's truly needed and in a reasonable amount of time. I did this as a temporary experiment and never screwed the programmable t-stat to the wall, I just left it sitting on a table in our BR. Well the cat came by and must have stepped on it and kicked it over to the default "auto" set point of 75° one day before we came home... hence the $3.95 worth of gas usage.

I just signed on with the gas company. When I signed the contract this past fall, there was a $7 minimum monthly fee. Two months later they restructured their rates and fees and drastically increased everything for low consumption residential heating users. It now cost me ~$2 therm/CCF of the first 30 therm/CCF and the minimum charge is now $13. These are about 85% increases. I wrote a bunch of letters complaining, but it did no good (as you can imagine). They pretty much told me if I use over 100 therms a month or more that I'd start to save money over the previous structure. Gee great... so if I leave my heat on 12 months out of the year, I can get down to the previous more reasonable rates. Anyway, I think I'm going tell them to come get their meter in another couple of months. I had planned on heating my DHW with gas as there's still a small savings for me to do so, but I don't want to do this out of spite...

Since they paid to run the gas, gave me a couple of programmable t-stats, and $600 worth of rebates to buy my new gas boilers, I'm guessing these A-holes are going to have a payback on me of about 150 years at $13 a month.

I save about $200 on my electric (2 heat pumps) when I'm burning 24x7. All other appliances are electric and we have a big fam so the electric bill is still over $150, even with no HP usage.

My gas bill $23.32 & my electric bill was $162 for 2 months. I usually pay over $120/month
electric so I've also saved $80 on that also.

AOD said:

How does your cat turn up your thermostat?

I am stuck with a $10 "customer charge" which I don't like. I should call and complain, and threaten to disconnect unless they drop it. Only thing I really need gas for is when I go away overnight in the winter.

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Get a small propane tank and disconnect the natural gas. It's not very difficult to do a propane conversion on a furnace.