My gas bill!

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Registered: 03-07-2005
My gas bill!
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Thu, 01-12-2006 - 4:40pm
My gas bill for December was $271.00! Now, I'm not heating a mansion. Our furnace is older and so are our windows so I'm sure that contributes alot but still.....Plus I keep the dang thermostat at 67-68 for most of the time. I about flipped out when I saw that bill. I don't know how some people can afford to heat their homes at all. I really don't know how people can afford to heat these great big huge homes. I just don't get it. Our upstairs is heated w/ baseboard electric heat--we don't have heating ducts upstairs. Why, I'll never know but I plan on adding duct work up here when we have central air put in--yes, I'm from the dinosaur era-we do not have central air yet.

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Registered: 05-19-2004
Mon, 01-16-2006 - 11:21am

Ours was $305 this month and our house is about 1100 sqft in PA. It is old, but we have plastic on all of the windows and I keep the thermostat around 60 at night and no higher than 66 during the day! It really stinks, but we refuse to go on the budget plan and let them keep our money plus interest all year. DH does not trust the figures they come up with for the budget payment. We suffer for about 4 months in the cold months, then relax in the spring knowing our bill is only $40 for a while.

To answer the other poster, I know a law passed that even if you miss 1 gas payment you can be shut off!! (I don't know if that's just PA or everywhere~ I was told the Bush admin passed it) This could happen to many people this winter since the prices have doubled!! Are they just going to let them freeze to death???!!

Nicki

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Registered: 09-25-2003
Mon, 01-16-2006 - 2:03pm
I'm feeling really lucky. Or maybe not, since the reason our gas bill is so low is because we live in a 600sq feet apartment on the second floor. We're right above the hot water tanks for the building so our apartment is very very warm all the time. We haven't turned the heat on in the year and a half we've been here. Then again, we don't have air conditioning, so in the summer DH has trouble sleeping.
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Registered: 03-28-2003
Tue, 01-17-2006 - 8:44am

Good morning! I find this maddening but interesting. Our combined gas/electric bill (that's the way they do it Colorado) was $380. I about fainted. Our house is about 2200 sq ft. and is very old (1890) but the heater is new and there are storm windows and we keep the thermostat turned down to the 60s during the day and night and only up to 70 when everyone is here. Some friends said theirs was $520. Typically our very, very worst bill is just over $200. I'm furious because out here the weather has been in the 60s and all the weather reports say it is unseasonably warm and has been all winter. And then on the news they talk about the huge surpluses in heating oil supply (like the gas surplus last fall after the "shortage" never materialized). Let's see, can we find the thing that is wrong with that picture? It means the energy companies are making a fortune. But once rate increases have been approved they never go down.

I, too, would love to know if absolutely everybody just called up those emergency hotline numbers and said they couldn't pay their bills. Since I think it's the state that helps people you would sure see a lot of pressure put on the energy commission to lower bills in a hurry.
Just my ticked off 2-cents,

Jenny

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Registered: 03-24-2004
Tue, 01-17-2006 - 10:10am
I didn't realize there were so many Indiana ladies here. I'm Indiana too, I think our bill was just over $400 but our electric is included in that as well.
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