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Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

This is about standard electricity that enters your home, not heavy electricity. How much do you pay?

Let's keep this apples to apples and quote the price in KWH and in $USD so I can make sense of it. (I'm looking at you Canada) Please give a vague description as to where you are. I'm on a rage about my electric bill.

Minnesota, USA
$0.18 KWH

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 4:24 pm

Switzerland (somwehre in the east)
High-rate tariff (Mo-Fr07:00-19:00) - USD 0.26/kWh
Low-rate (nights & weekend) - USD 0.17/kWh

Modern, energy-saving appliances and CFL / LED bulbs are widespread here though, which helps keep total costs (mostly) below the pain treshold.

ETA: What about fuel prices?
Unleaded, 95 octane - USD 1.86/l (USD 7.06 / gal)
Unleaded, 95 octane - USD 1.92/l (USD 7.28 / gal)
Diesel - USD 1.97 / l (USD 7.48 / gal)

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

^I shouldn't bitch.

Bankster wrote:

ETA: What about fuel prices?

Regular unleaded is around $3.50 a gallon here. How many here are old enough to remember "leaded" gas?

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:02 pm

Northern California: I pay $.079/KWH during "off-peak" hours, and $.313/KWH during "Summer peak" hours. Don't ask me what those peak hours are, I don't know and my bill doesn't say. But even though I work at home and therefore consume power throughout the day, my "peak" usage constitutes only 17% of my total electricity consumed. My net average cost for this past month came to $.12/KWH, or 2/3 as much as yours.

This does not include a charge of $.115 per day for the privilege of having an electric meter. In other words, I have to pay them to track my consumption.

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21158

Pastor Frank wrote:

Regular unleaded is around $3.50 a gallon here. How many here are old enough to remember "leaded" gas?

Actually called Regular. Around 87 octane if I remember right.

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:19 pm

I pay .12 KWH in North Texas but we do not have peak and nonpeak changes to the rate. We are unregulated so we can shop around and you usualy have to switch every couple years to keep good rates. We have an energy star house so worst part of summer (remember we broke the recorded record for most consecutive days over 100 last year) total cost is about $200. We are frugal though and keep the temperature at 77 and blinds closed during the day.

I paid $3.15 a gallon for gas the last time I filled up which is the cheapest I've paid in a while but I have to fill up twice a week.

One of these days we in the US will pay what everyone else in the world pays for gas and I'll have to get a moped.

Edit: just a point of refferances my mother in law has a 15 year old house 15 minutes away and her electricity bill was $800 during August last year but she also lives in a regulated city so only one choice for an electricity provider I think she was closer to .19 KWH.

Baiting Guru Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 2163

omg don't even start about gas prices, i almost start crying when have to refuel my car. Diesel is about € 1,349 per litre over here

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:49 pm

Your timing is impeccable. I just opened last month's electric bill. Let's see . . .

In western Ohio its $.086 per kw/h for the Generation Charge. After things called "Customer Charge," "Distribution Charge" and "Transmission Related Charges" are added in it comes to $.1316 per kw/h.

Pastor Frank wrote:

Regular unleaded is around $3.50 a gallon here. How many here are old enough to remember "leaded" gas?

I was back in Iowa a couple of weeks ago and filled up in a station that had a regular leaded pump. The attendant told me that some of the farmers in the area still used it in their older tractors and other equipment.

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:03 pm

Quote:

How many here are old enough to remember "leaded" gas?

Remember it? I used to pump the stuff into customers cars and wash the windows for them.

According to my last bill,the electricity is .09862 kwh

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 10:25 pm

According to my latest electricity bill, I've paid £0.1401 for day and £0.0612 for night energy per kWh

Unleaded petrol 95 octane is £1.30
Diesel is £1.37

I'm living in South East England, prices given are in pounds.

Edit: corrected £0.0612 instead of £0.612

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

^ Hi, and welcome to Eater.

I understand you may be from Canada so I will limit my language and rage against you. Any and all discussion of maths and math related items here will be done in American English only. £ is an unknown math related quantity, £ is probably some Canadian Communist attempt at destroying the youth of America.

Again, welcome to Eater zzz. I will find plenty of time to hate you in the future.

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:27 pm

^^^ Oh, forgive my ignorance Pastor Frank, I totally forgot you asked the prices in USD. If you're still interested, here are the prices I quoted re-calculated in USD according to today's foreign exchange rates Wink

Electricity - day energy: $0.22/kWh
Electricity - night energy: $0.096/kWh

Unleaded gas 95 octane is $2.04/l
Diesel is $2.15/l

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:36 pm

Seattle, Washington: $0.093/kWh for regular electricity.
No data available on the cost of heavy electricity.

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

@zzz That's better, I've scratched you off of my "Canadians I hate" list. (you were at the bottom, it's alphabetical)

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 12:54 am

$0.127/kwh Oklahoma City. PF, I would set zzz to "Watch".

Scratch him off the list and the next thing we know....we're all drinking Moosehead and buying gas by the litre.

Litre? Is that even a word?

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

^ As our Canadian brothers and sisters to the South would say, "No worries mate".

I'm watching him, trust me, I'm watching. I already gave him a preliminary ocular pat down.

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 1:37 am

zzz please excuse Pastor Frank, he is a great guy living in one of our happy tax free ex colonies (USA) and probably unaware of the shite we have to put up with. Petrol here now is about £6 (over $9) a gallon (UK) and it's now sold nowadays in litres not gallons for some strange reason.

I have some relatives in Canada where fuel and energy prices are a lot lower and some whisky bottles are made of plastic so they don't smash if you drop them Smile

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 3:53 am

I know for a fact that Pastor Frank has never dropped a whiskey bottle. He has emptied several hundred (in the past year) but somehow he manages to never break one. The contents are too valuable.

Shampoo bottles, on the other hand..............

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 4:39 am

$0.10/Kwh Canadian, or $0.09813 U.S, but who's counting?

I dunno PF, but at that rate, it's obvious that your hard eared money is going to those eastern Canada commies who are selling their surplus capacity to your own utility company Wink

@ Just Cold: Moosehead? That horsep*ss!? You want Keiths. Now that's beer! Very Happy

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 4:45 am

^^I've always wondered, does he shampoo that tinfoil?

Laughing

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 4:54 am

PF...I know you have Hans on the watch list (dyed in the wool Canadian).... but Fae?

Where does this evil end?

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 5:36 am

SE Florida

Fuel:
1st 1000 kwh @ $0.033430
over 1000 kwh @ $0.043430

Non-fuel:
1st 1000 kwh @ $0.051840
over 1000 kwh @ $0.061840

Regular gas $3.29 gal.

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

^

I have a plan involving a 1500 mile long extension cord...

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:30 am

^^ Wouldn't work. Assuming an AWG14 wire and a voltage of 110V, the resistance of the extension cord would limit your power consumption to about 150mW at best (and probably much much less in RL circumstances), which considerably limits the range of appliances you can use.
It'd take you about 278 days at full load to use 1kWh of electricity. In addition, another kWh would be lost on the way to you, effectively doubling the cost per kWh (not to mention the cost for a 1500 mile extension cord).

Sorry to shatter your dreams.

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

^ Don't confuse me with science, I'm working on something here.