We are paying more than that for our 2k sq ft house and just me and hubby living here. We are also frugal.....turn off lights, set the ac high and the heat low.
Yes they succeeded a long time ago here....in California.
This is just the most depressing part of the new USSA.
I used to read about the coin meters for electricity they had in the UK. It was difficult to even imagine. I gather that now all energy use is monitored there from a central location and you have to travel to that place (or use an online banking system) to deposit money for your energy use. No longer difficult to understand.
We have a 2500 sq ft house. One room is storage and not heated/cooled. We are in the Northern Tier and it will be actual -17 here tonight. The propane heat is set at 60. There is no heat upstairs, so I am wearing a microwavable vest and booties filled with flax or buckwheat, texting gloves and have a 300 watt radiant heater under the desk. We will set up Coleman propane heaters in the cellar tonight as this is the temp that will cause pipes to freeze. I may use another Coleman upstairs for a few hours. I have an oil-filled radiant heater in a bathroom area where there is capped water pipe. Our one surviving luxury is a one-person portable hot tub in the bathroom that I heat 2x/day. I use it mornings, hubby uses it before bed. The woodstove heats the back of the house and our bedroom and the kitchen uses a propane wall furnace. Some of that heat travels upstairs over the course of the day.
We have propane in 1/2 our shop area and it is set to 40. It is a very efficient furnace that sips fuel. However, all the propane furnaces use electricity to blow the hot air.
We have a gross income slightly below the median. We just made a quarterly income tax payment, a quarterly life insurance payment and have our bi-annual property tax payment due in 5 weeks. The expected electric bill and the budget bill for the propane is something I have come to dread.