On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Doug Pensinger wrote:
> I'm just wondering what everyone else out there pays for gas and
> electric power. PG&E charges me 11.5 cents/Kwh baseline (345 Kwh) and
> 13.3 cents for over baseline for power and $1.05/therm baseline (64
> therms) $1.25 for over baseline for gas (the baseline price for gas is
> up 64% from last January's bill).
I'm not sure what our rates are, but our most recent electricity bill is
up just a bit from the comparable bill a year ago. And we may have run
the air conditioner a couple of days on the period from a year ago, and I
*know* we didn't on the period covered by the most recent electricity
bill. I can see if I have rate info filed away somewhere, and report on
that. (Our electricity bill isn't so bad, in other words, but it's a
little higher than I would have expected without the current energy
crunch.)
Our last gas bill is over double what the gas bill 12 months earlier was.
I have never seen such a large check written for the gas bill -- almost
$120. Since we bought the house in May 1994, there have been only 6 bills
over $60 for the month -- and our last gas bill was for almost $120. I'm
not sure what period that covers, but I'm hoping that the really nasty
cold days in early-to-mid December were on that bill. I saw figures on
what the wholesalers are charging the gas companies for natural gas in the
newspaper earlier this week; I think it about quadrupled since 12 months
ago. (I may be able to find that paper and give more precice numbers on
the wholesale prices as given there.)
I wish I had more definitive numbers handy.
Julia
