Eric Storm:
>Gene, you mentioned $30 per month for electricity. What's that in
>kilowatts? What else do you use?
Looking at my rate card (we read our own meters here in the Ozarks for our
electric coops), $30.11 buys 370 KWH. The monthly rate is $8.50 plus .0580
first 1200 KWH plus 1/2 percent county tax. I also use propane, for space
heating, water heating, cooking and baking, clothes drying. Over three
years, I have averaged $39.76 per month for propane, average price has been
70 cents per gallon.
For what it's worth, when I have decided to see how low I could get my
electric bill, I have gotten it down to just over $20 per month. And if I
chose to go back to cutting and burning wood for space heat, I could at
least halve my propane bills. If I chose to hang clothes on a clothesline,
if I chose to take fewer showers, etc., etc., etc. I choose to live large.
