So, we were out of town for two weeks and used our heater for 5 days over the past month (used sleeping bags instead to sleep and let our apartment get down into the 50's) and our energy bill is over $90. While we were gone, we had everything unplugged but our refrigerator.
We live in an apartment complex, so we can't go doing remodeling or anything to get our energy expenditures down. Is there something I'm missing that would save energy for us? I just have a hard time understanding how on earth we used that much. I hear my friends flipping out over their $50 energy bill and how high it is, and it just doesn't make sense to me that we would have all of this trouble with it. Anyway, if you've been visited by the energy fairy and gained some powerful insight, please pass it along! :)
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Cowboy
Do your friends (the ones with the insanely cheap electricity bills) have the same provider that you do? If not, that might explain it. It's unfair, but power costs vary widely.
My wife and I did the cold house thing for a while. We had a kerosene heater (while some electricity is required, the main expense is the fuel), and our bill was still around $100. If you add the cost of the kerosene, I suppose we were paying at least $150 a month. (We live in western NC, by the way. Of course, weather plays an important role.)