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My electric bill was stupid high last month. I mean stupid high. Somehow, I used less electricity than I did last year for the very same month, and yet the price of electricity had magically risen enough that I paid more on this year’s statement. It’s not like I’m walking around my house, leaving the fridge door open, either. I’m being as cautious with my electricity usage as possible, and the bill is still higher.
Nearly everyone is being cautious with their electricity usage this year, and bills are still much higher. You need to cut costs where you can.
This winter here in rural SW Idaho I turned my heat down 4 degrees, put on two sweaters, and burned more wood and my electric bill still went up. Since my biggest electric use is heating in the winter and cooling in the summer I’m limited in what I can do. I’m still burning free firewood I got a few years ago but when that runs out buying new is sky high. With all the farming it’s too humid in the summer for a swamp cooler and summers are too short for solar to pay for itself. Idaho isn’t perfect but it beats everywhere else I looked, it’s home, and it’s within the American Redoubt.