HOWS EVERYONES HEAT BILLS LATELY???? Are utilities going up?

My most recent was $460 in KY. Granted we have a 1600 sq ft old house, and it's been cold as fuck!! But geez. Next months will probably be just as bad... I hope not.

energy prices must necessarily skyrocket

got wood?

Keeping thermometer down helped a lot. I've noticed that my house warms up to 68*F on its own during the day thanks to the sun. I keep thermometer down to 63*F. Last bill was only 110 bucks. I've heard of 3-7x worse for my neighbors because they set at 68-72*F.

Hardly use heat at all California drought and winter heat wave continues.

I don't have heat. So no bills.
It is cold though.

Last Edited by Bizarre Verewolf on 01/21/2014 10:13 AM

300.00 in 1400 sq ft house, indiana here

I heat with a wood stove so it's free.

Yes!

I keep mine on about 65/66, so mine isn't to bad. But then I live in the South and we haven't had as much cold weather.

Not exactly free, the stove, the splitter, the saw, the trailer, the stacking, the carrying wood at all hours, that's costs, not to mention surgery costs for 'mistakes'.
On the other hand, if dead wood doesnt burn, it generates methane and other decay products, so its better to burn it and make plant food than to let it rot and make methane and other useless gasses.
All that said, I got this winters wood all for free from just down the road and I didnt even have to use my saw for most of it.
We like to keep it about 75, you know, lingerie weather....

nah, use nat gas,and its about $4.65 mcf

WV here, but sharing your concerns. Question: WTF is really going on in this part of US? These 'vortexes' and 'nor'easters' are focused on Ohio Valley, Southern Gulf.

I have small children so mine is set on 69
My bill last month was....$600.00
I'm in Michigan, it's been damn cold.

What are you paying per kWh? I was paying too much, lowered 5 cents by changing supplier. I'm in Pa.

refilled #2 fuel oil on 1/17, last fill 11/23--tool 171 gallons at $3.84 each

Been using my wood stove so my electric has been around 60 for house because of all other lights/t.v/dryer etc...

but just sold my stove this morning to a friend...
im moving next week and handing the home back over to the bank so no big deal.

I heat with natural gas, until Obama fucks that up too...although I do supplement by burning neighborhood cats that I trap...the smell is bad but the BTU rating is quite high :)

OK, that's funny, but not really.

wood burning stove... no heat bill

sw indiana here, getting raped by vectren, last months was 200 as usual, this month went up to 300!! 1100 sq ft house, FUCK U VECTREN!

We are doing okay in Phoenix. Our usual winters have had a couple of sub-freezing nights. Most of us have electric or gas heat. But we have friends in Colorado who have a huge log house and propane heating. They filled up their 1000 gallon buried tank in late September last year. By January 1st they were refilling it again. Not a top-up. They were almost empty! Their boilers have been running almost non-stop from sundown to sun-up. Then it warms up enough to stay comfortable without full time operation of the radiant system during the daytime.

This is the worst year they have ever seen and the propane prices have been over 3.35/gallon this year.

The do not have natural gas. But they are thinking of installing an electric steam/flash boiler that will cost about the same per 100,000 btu/hr to operate as they now pay for operating the propane fired boilers. Seems unimaginable that propane and electricity could be approaching parity in costs, but they are!

It's over 9000.

Heat my house with Electricity (water and heat, cook with LPG), bill for Dec 2013 was $203.85, not bad! my rate for electric heat is $00.045 per KWH. South Dakota.

Yea I have LPG and a wood stove for backup or power outage.

242.24 electric

144.62 Natural gas

Wisconsin...

Don't anyone listen to BRIEF... once you get used to the smell, it aint that bad.

He just wants to make sure there isn't a run on cats so he can keep them all for himself.

You may be surprised at how much potential heat cardboard boxes, plastic bottles and other food storage product waste has in it, and burning it with good airflow in a hot wood stove is clean because most of that wrapping, netting and packaging doesnt get recycled because its too small and it just gets buried to leach into the soil.

Does anyone burn coal anymore?

Tell my aching back, dull chainsaw and broken axe handle that!

1700 sqft, 71 F. Ohio.

Overpriced 81. per ccf gas last month( I hate that we now must keep track of who we are paying and research who to go with when contracts run out)

Just before my last reading I noticed snow melting around bathroom fan vents on the roof.

Put plastic over the vents (easily removed in case of 'emergency') and have noticed the warmth and lack of 'cool spots'.

I may not have changed 'suppliers in time to lower the price to 56 per ccf this month, but can't wait to see how covering those (2)4" pipes going straight out the roof effects my usage!
Will know within the week, next reading is done tomorrow.

Our recent bill was $472, with most of that being gas. Northwest Indiana, 2,000sqft house.

I still have a room full of coal in my old house, down in the basement...I've burned some of it but it stinks like hell and the neighbors don't like it LOL...good emergency backup though.