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Research Firm Claims Most cars still cost more to charge than to fill up with gas
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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Why was your bill $700 though?
Is that all new charges for the previous month, is there an unpaid amount from last months bill? If you owed $650 on the last bill and didn't pay it while the new month generated $50 in new charges then yeah your bill will be for $700. Just as an example.
Just saying a number doesn't mean anything. How did you manage to get charged $700.00 for your electric last month?
Edit: dude posted his bill below. His charge for one month is $350
No unpaid balance, just new charges. That was the cost of electricity for the last billing cycle.
Jesus, what's your utilization or price per kWh? I use a shitload of electricity (around 2000kWh per month and my utility provider says average is more like 800) and my bill has never exceeded $300, even with an EV that I drive 1200 miles a month
He just posted a picture of his bill in a reply to me if you want to take a look at it.
For reasons I'm not sure about, I posted a screenshot of my bill below in answer to the quack telling me I don't know what my bill was.
We live in the upper, larger portion of the house and there is a suite downstairs. I'm not sure what they get up to, but the cost is high. We have led lights, central ac which we only use conservatively. Other power sucks would be the extra fridge in garage I guess, so the household (with the suite) runs 3 fridges, 2 sets of laundry machines and 2 dishwashers. Our range is gas.
I have no idea how the bill is so high. I can only imagine how much higher it would be if I charged a vehicle on top - though I do understand that would eliminate the $120/week I spend on gasoline
I'm sorry but I simply do not believe your new charges were $700, especially if you "didn't do anything different". Did you host a rock festival in your backyard or something? Did you plug in a 12 foot pile of air conditioners on high the entire month on your driveway?
What state are you in and how many electric heaters are you using this summer?
Lol. I just told you I didn't do anything different.
I didn't do anything odd. We have central ac and ran it conservatively, and had it off for 2 weeks during vacation also.
We are on 2 month billing cycles, so this is for 60 days. But I said I got blasted with the bill this month, which is in fact the case.
So, its not a $700 monthly bill, it's $350, which is a pretty important detail to leave out.
2500 kWh is pretty massive though. We have a smaller house but with multiple air window conditioners running we only use roughly 1k a month.
You're electricity is actually significantly cheaper than mine, Our base price is the $0.14 kWh, which is lower than the standard rate from the utility company which last I remember was something like $0.23.
It's also in CAD, so it's $262 USD.
Yup, mystery solved.
~~Holy crap, that's crazy. I stand corrected. There's got to be an error with this. Have you called the utility? That's just nuts~~.
Nevermind. This is for two months, and it's CAD. That's completely different than OMG my bill is $700!!
With my job I get other people's hydro bills to split between upper and lower tenants and I see their bills too. While I find this bill exceptionally high, it's not really out of whack. This is just what we pay for electricity here (in BC Canada)
Canada. That's why. I wish OP here had said that originally.
Oh is that why? Why, because we make our power and don't buy it from Canada? 😂
You make your power now? Is that why you're being charged $350 a month to use it? Interesting.
We - used by a speaker to refer to himself or herself and one or more other people considered together.
Interesting. I wonder if I meant "we" as in Canadians?
Keep trying dude.