BGE can kiss my butt!

I don’t suppose you’d feel any better to know that here in NJ things aren’t much better? 😛
Our electric bill here is always high–*usually* $300 or better, depending on the season. We don’t have the option of natural gas yet, so we have oil heat, (and that is a rant for another time, believe me. 😡 ) and the rest of the house is electric. Stove, dryer, hot water heater, 2 refrigerators and a chest freezer. We had 6 fish tanks, but as the residents died off, we haven’t replaced them, and shut the tanks down 1 by 1.
My husband and I both work full time jobs; mine requires me to travel off and on within our region. My vehicle before this job was an F-350 crew cab dually diesel truck. (OUCH!) When I started this job a year ago, I had no other choice but to pick up another car that was more fuel efficient. And I’m thoroughly glad I did what with the cost of fuel now. Our heating oil prices went from $2.69 up to $4.89 a gallon. So, you can add a few more folk to your kiss my butt rant. 👿

I can totally relate! Our PG&E is minimum $400 a month. This is when we don’t run the heater or the AC. When we run the heater and the AC, it goes up to $700 a month 😯
We live in the Bay Area where rents and COL is reallly high. Even though we make pretty good money in comparison to most places, we’re in the same boat.

In the new housing they are starting billing and if you go over your allotment you have to pay. If you are lucky enough to be under your allotment you are supposed to get reimbursed, but I haven’t met anyone that lucky. Most people I know are having to pay out extra.
Agreed! Though I’m in new housing, it’s overseas, so we’re not having to do the normal pay-the-rent business that new housing Stateside does. It’s niiice… though I’m hoping to move off base next January (once our one-year contract is over for this house), so will be back to paying rent & utilities. I’m afraid of what our electricity bill will be!
Sad thing is in my area if I were to live off post we would be making money as our other utilities (phone, internet, cable) would be covered by BAH/BAS.

We’ve started to check how to use less electricy/gas. Keep the TV off; turn off the lights; wash clothes only once a week and use cold water if possible (my daughter is also learning that even is she wears a t-shirt for 5 minutes – barring accidents – she doesn’t need to put it in the wash); keep the AC higher in the summer, the heat lower in the winter (and wear a sweater); make sure the house is properly insulated. The previous house we owned, there were light-peeking cracks around the basement windows! Talk about energy waste right there; I think the first 6 months, we cut the bills in half simply by plugging all the holes. Have only 1 light outside in the front of the house, and turn it off before going to bed. Some of my neighbours have lights all around the house and leave them on all night (how can they sleep 😕 ).

I think we tend to waste a lot without even noticing it. Every little bit counts, because they all add up. Creating the energy costs a lot of money – this is why we should try to use it sparingly.

Wow! I hope that price includes your heat! I am in a very large apartment here and my heat is included in rent but my electricity is only about $21-28 a month

Isn’t any better here… water is going up *convenit since people will be watering their flowers and grass*… heating gas went up, gas at the pumps are high *at this point $3.53 a gallon and still going up*
When fuel goes up, food goes up since it is now more costly to ship it. And wages are the same. NO raises, NO cost of living help… nothing. 🙁 This sucks. 🙁 I wish it was better for everyone.

Do you honestly think any of those politicians that where born with a silver spoon in their mouths and that do not have to pay for their own gas and have NEER had to actually work a REAL job a day in their life would really care??