There is a pending energy issue looming just beyond the horizon that is going to become a major issue very soon. Electricity rates, natural gas costs and home heating oil prices increased massively due to Joe Biden energy policy. However, things are likely to get much worse in a few months.
On the issue of oil and gasoline prices, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has dropped 40% since Joe Biden began using it to offset massive global prices increases in oil. However, Biden is doing nothing to increase production and has not engaged energy producers in conversation to expand domestic production. Non pretending warning HERE.
Ultimately what this means is another wave of sicky price increases for gasoline are coming fast.
Additionally, Mark Wolfe, director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA), is warning that continued pressure on natural gas supplies by exporting U.S. production to Europe is going to make our electricity rates go even higher as more than 40% of U.S. electricity generated comes from the use of natural gas. Wolfe wrote a letter in October to Energy Secretary Granholm [SEE HERE], and the situation is unfolding exactly as he warned.
Electricity rates have jumped massively in the past year, and it looks like they are going to continue to rise. The spring and summer of 2023 looks to deliver another round of higher oil prices, higher natural gas prices, higher electricity prices and higher gasoline prices. Which brings me to the question…
It is challenging to find solid data (without noise) on regional electricity, home heating and natural gas prices. However, Treehouse readers consistently provide the most accurate assessments of reality on the ground. You guys are the experts in checkbook economics. So, I ask you the question:
How much have your electricity, natural gas and/or home heating costs increased in the past year?
Central Alabama here. All electric while the grid is up.
I really don’t see a difference yet, we had some stupid cold weather in December, which was the bulk of my last bill. I MAY notice a difference next month, since weather is back to normal now
As a side note, come February I change jobs into recession/depression proof sector to make sure of income for as long as possible.
I felt that would be the most responsible thing long term while we go through this next phase.
The beautiful thing is, while I took a pay cut in terms of rate per hour, it’s a raise when I factor in less travel and insurance paid. Gotta love having built a reputation and being in demand 🙂
Responsible people who can self-manage and be a solution will be in demand.
The work ethic, ability to problem-solve, and go the extra mile of mature people will be vital.
My small pharmacy owner friend is working 20 hours a day, has irresponsible employees who walk off, no skills, nothing. South FL has the worst quality labor pool I’ve ever seen.
I told him to start hiring seniors in good health to help him. He is exhausted and deserves better.
North of Denver — Natural gas price has doubled. Electricity is average of 14¢/kWh when you figure in peak, off peak, provider is an electric co-op.
In what might soon be breaking news, a family member talked to a friend this evening and friend said he’d just talked to his son, Army captain stationed in Poland. Son said before you ask I might as well tell you since it’ll be in the news anyway, what you hear in the background are bombs going off. Don’t know any more than that. I tried searching and found no news on it.
bpearthwatch (on YouTube and rumble) has good sitrep info on the war. Also Monkeywerx.
In Calif, our brains can no longer process the thought of 17cents per kWh. I think we might be above 34 cents right now.
Congress MUST RECLAIM ITS RIGHT TO DECLARE WAR, and EXERCISE IT.
NOBODY in Congress has spoken up to claim this right, and protect the American people from the corrupt predation of BiteMe and the MI complex.
Just received my gas bill for 12/14 to 1/17 – 346.55…1.87 a therm
Last year 12/13 to 1/14 – 192.18…1.70 a therm, A TEN PERCENT INCREASE!
To keep my electric bill at the same price I’ve reduced my energy usage by 13.4%. the price of oil for my oil heat has more than doubled, to make up for that I’m using less I’ve only used 57 gallons since April, 8 and 1/2 months. I normally use about 300 gallons in 12 months. It’s cold in here. I wear three to four layers at all times. My cable bill’s up $6. My phone bill is the only thing that’s consistent.
In MA. I do actual usage billing, so if I use more energy in one month, I’ll see it in my bill. I prefer it that way.
Gas – My Jan bill for gas crossed the $500 mark for the first time ever. Same house, same winter temps. Normally, my high bill in winter would be $350. So that’s a 40% increase. And I still have to get through Jan-Mar!
Electric – Right now, I’m paying about $220 in winter, when normal is maybe $150. So about 45% there. Since our electric comes from gas around here. I’m not surprised.
Yes, I made them take me off the cost averaging plan. I can’t get a grip on what changes I need to make to reduce costs unless it is a bill stating actual cost/use for the month.
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CO-3 — western slope — 80% increase in monthly natural gas bill.
That is awful. Western slope used to be reasonable but the Governor is the same so that may be the difference.
25%
Before this winter, it had gone up, on average, $120-$200. I live in a small apartment. I also have the same electricity-using appliances as before.
Suburbs of Boston MA – Electric up ~15%. Heating oil up ~25%.
So MN
Propane:
1/6/19 1.18/gal
1/5/21 1.06/gal
12/13/21 1.39/gal
11/16/22 2.05/gal-these rates are locked in late september as we pay ahead to keep fall rate. Offer by local coop.
Electricity:
12/9/17 0.0838/kw
1/9/19 0.0303/kw
1/9/20 0.0876/kw
1/9/21 0.0852/kw
1/9/22 0.0846/kw
1/9/23 0.1043/kw
Dog food up 22%
We burn our own wood and have egg layers.
In the summer there is a garden. Canning heavily in the fall.
Bees have been a large expense as they frequently die in the winter.
Gas is around#/gallon
Diesel around 4.80-5.0/gallon
Most milk, cream and butter up 25-30%
Internet is satellite and it remained. Phone about the same. Local garbage company up 12%-fuel fees.
Prescott, AZ. UNS Gas rate per therm is 26% higher dec21/dec22. A surcharge was added in Nov 22.
Our electric co-op increased our rates about 3.25% last spring–the first in six years– and raised the monthly service availability fee by 10¢. No rate increase this year so far.
The new rates went into effect April of last year. We’re rural. Lights and appliances are electric. We have a well, and the pump and filter system are electric. We heat with a mix of firewood in an efficient woodstove and some electric space heaters although we could make it with wood only.
Colorado here. Our Electric-Gas has gone up astronomically… like about roughly 30% – 40%. In other words $100 worth of Electricity – Gas in 2021 now costs about $150 in 2023.
Rural central NC here. My electricity bill has gone up 12%. Heating costs about the same for several reasons. I changed propane suppliers from a chain outfit to a local company who doesn’t add on charges. Also I haven’t cut my big HVAC unit on. Instead I heat with 2 small L.P. gas fired room heaters that I keep on lowest setting and use small electric heater in bathroom. When the temps fell into the teens, I used additional electric heaters in bedrooms.
Northern Illinois –
ComEd (electric) up 29.2%
Price per kWh
.08333/kWh December ‘22
.06449/kWh December ‘21
Nicor (natural gas) up 25%
Price per therm
.85/therm December ‘22,
.68/therm December ‘21
Not including increase in additional charges (taxes, delivery etc…)
Just a quick note in response to your ask on energy cost increases. For my location (North Los Angeles county), my natural gas bills for 2022 have increased 97% and the electrical bills have increased 13% (normalized for consumption using 2021 as a baseline). It was an eye-opening result. FWIW
Palmdale? Windy Valley.
My wife and I live in an off-grid energy efficient house in NW Wyoming that we designed. It’s not what most folks think of an off-grid house. It’s actually pretty nice. Our electric bill has gone up $0. Our principle energy cost is for propane. We use propane for a cook stove, heat the house (boiler), and run a generator to charge our solar PV system’s batteries if we get enough days without sun during the winter. We use about 700 gallons of propane a year. Our propane gas bill is the same or a little less than last year. Not sure why but the rate from my local propane supplier has held steady with last year. We use about 2 cords of firewood a year for supplemental heat. Firewood is up about $50 a cord over last year.
Yes, it actually cost more to build a house like this, but not so much more as to be unaffordable. We cut down on the square footage and other “nice to haves” in order to pay for the energy efficiency improvements. Why did we do it? Not because we foresaw the current energy situation or want to “save the planet”. We did it to be as self-sufficient as possible because we didn’t know what to expect in the future. We’re non-conformist black sheep and we’re not vaxed either.
After reading most of the responses re:gas,oil,propane and natural gas increases what can you say except a big giant “Thanks Joe ” what took over two hundred years to build you destroyed in two. That’s got to be a world record .
Joe had help.
Boise, Idaho.
My 1,360 square foot house uses electric heat, gas stove and gas water heater.
Electric is up about 20%. This winter, my monthly electric has gone from $50 to $60, and that’s cutting back on usage. If I had kept the same usage, it probably would have been more: My house is kept at 60 degrees all day and night, I use space heaters for my office during the day, a space heater in the living room when I watch TV, electric mattress pad keeps me toasty warm at night. Sundays I treat myself to 63 degrees on the thermostat, and that’s become almost too warm.
Gas has held steady, but I just received this customer notice from Intermountain Gas Company: “IGC today filed an interim purchased gas cost adjustment (PGA). If approved, the increase would be effective Feb 1, 2023….The primary reason for the filing is a significant increase in the commodity price for natural gas….lower-than-average natural gas storage levels and insufficient pipeline capacity…..global events and an increase in LNG export….Intermountain’s earnings will not increase as a result of this filingBecause the price Intermountain pays is passed directly to customers there is no financial benefit to the company from the proposed price increase…..If approved, a typical residential customer would see an increase of $8.58 per month, or 16.6%…..commercial customers would see an increase of $43.10 per month, or 17.9%.”
I’m in Australia, plus I just moved interstate a year ago. So my information is useless.
However, we are just about to go down the same path. We have so much natural gas and coal and uranium. But to that we say ‘no thank you’. Instead we will go with worse environmental choices that are also less dependable, such as wind and solar.
A few years ago, we even cut down 200yo trees in beautiful Tassie, to put in a wind farm. Bastards!
Apparently, we saw the disasters overseas and said we would like that for ourselves, too! – And this is from both our major political parties.
Rach, your information has never been worthless, glad you’re here.
Thank you Maquis, that’s very kind of you.
I had just meant that since I have moved, I have no baseline data for comparison. Plus in Australia we are at a different point in the global nightmare – our energy problems are just beginning. And my mum is already making plans on how to make a coffee when there’s a blackout, because she knows it’s coming and she needs her coffee.
We all need our coffee, and intelligence that doesn’t make the current spreadsheet on Sundance’s mile long whiteboard still presents value to us all, we share the same multi-tentacled enemies after all, and far more eyes see our insights than we can possibly imagine.
Consider looking into a campstove that uses chafing fuel. Tiny, cheap, safe to use indoors or even a vehicle, and the fuel is not expensive if sourced from a restaurant supply store and can be stored safely anywhere forever. I bet a Moka Pot would be very efficient with one, I’m going to try that out soon now that I think about it.
They make heaters now using those, with the heat differential generating enough electricity to run a tiny internal fan once it warms up, perfect for making a room livable and placing near plumbing you don’t want to see freeze.
Just try not to fall off the planet down there, okay?
Thanks – I told mum to look at camping shops for something. But now it’s up to her. I believe she’s still thinking about options.
I’m really lucky that I live in a mild climate here, and need very minimal heating or cooling. I feel sorry for the people who can’t afford heating in places where it snows.
I will try not to fall off the planet. But I thought it was Guam that is in danger of tipping over…
Thanks to the erstwhile efforts of Congress Critter Hank Johnson we now know to spread our Marines out evenly over the island to prevent capsizing.
They have tiny camping stoves that run off either gas or propane. You can build a rocket stove out of bricks or cinder block that burns wood. Any of those three would make a nice cup of coffee quickly. There are also solar options, which one could duplicate with mirrors – a little slower, but just as capable. One can bake in some of those solar contraptions with cast iron Dutch ovens.
100 lb. propane bottle last year was $55 just yesterday I refilled it for $81
We have no water here on the Rez in AZ so we haul our own and drink bottled water.
I burn firewood. The little woman uses propane for heating and cooking.
I cook with propane and the stove so a 30 lb. bottle lasts for almost a year.
Electric (which we finally got two years ago) has gone up almost 25%.
I have a generator so we are backed up if needed.
It’s 50 miles to Cortez. Colorado from here and 65 miles to Farmington, New Mexico.
Gas was lowest a couple of months ago at $3.11.
It’s back up to $3.59 here and more (10 – 15 cents) in Cortez and Farmington.
Lastly, the dogs don’t know it but their food went from $18.49 18 months ago to $30 and we have three large dogs and two 10 day old puppies.
But as an old pal of mine used to say, “Life is good.”
Northern CO here … Year to year, our electricity has only gone up by approximately 20% so far, but natural gas in a home with a gas heater & water heater has tripled over last year! Granted, all of the excessive snow we’ve had so far may have been a major factor, but $308 monthly for 2 adults is rather unacceptable and very concerning
I can’t be of much assistance with the prices. I’m in coastal North Carolina. With all the warnings about the cost of living, I did the only thing I could do. Sold my 2500 sq ft house and purchased a 1300 sq ft condo.
Filled the propane tank so I could use gas logs in the event of rolling blackouts this winter. I have not yet used any of the propane and haven’t had to call for a refill so I have no idea how much more it will cost. Have had doors fitted with new weather stripping. I keep the heat pump thermostat low and wear more layers so my electricity has not changed. My one luxury is a small electric heater for the bathroom.
I have cut way back on everything. Never use more lights than I need. Cook in an air fryer and microwave and unplug everything when I’m not using the appliance. (except the refrigerator of course). Have not used the dishwasher at all and seldom use the washer/dryer, only when it becomes a “must”. The water here is not the best so I’ve had to install a water softener, my biggest expense so far.
I’m close to everything so I don’t require much gas either. Although I miss my house across the street from the water, I believe I made a good move.
Down sizing is practical, not fun and not for the very old. I remember in my 40s and some people I worked with in their 50s and 60s were moving from CA to Florida for work. I thought that’s old to be moving. Now, I did it in my late 60s. I managed but it was challenging. In ten years, I might not be able to do it. My 40 yo son does not “get” this.
It has been hard and now I’m regretting disposing of some of my furniture. But I’m adjusting and a lot older than you were when you were downsizing. I’m still not happy that I sold my house but my expenses are a lot cheaper but I’m always cold in this place. I look forward to going to bed at night because that’s the only time I’m warm. That’s no way to live. Too late now.
If anybody were to ever seek my advice about giving up what they have especially after a trauma of some kind, I would recommend NO DONT DO IT. That old advice about give it more than two years before making a significant move…..that’s very true.
I am in Connecticut, where just this month the state’s electric provider, Eversource, has increased the supply rate per kilowatt-hour from $0.12050 to $0.24172 – more than double overnight. I don’t know how electricity is sold in other states, but here at least the charge to supply electricity is distinct from the charge to deliver electricity. While that supply rate has increased, the delivery rate has not and is still around $0.12 per kilowatt-hour; it has hovered between $0.11 and $0.14 since at least 2018. For this same billing period (Dec-Jan) twelve months ago, the combined cost per kilowatt-hour was $0.1975, compared to roughly $0.36 today.
As for home heating oil, I just had around 100 gallons delivered at $4.55/gallon, down from $5.90 in June. Who needs a strategic petroleum reserve anyway? For comparison, it was $1.80 per gallon in December 2020, a month after Trump “lost”, and $3.30 at the end of October 2021. I don’t know anyone around this area who uses natural gas, so I’m no help there.
What’s happening with traditional energy sources in this country is outrageous, and it’s being done to us by our own government for no other reason than that it does not represent us. It represents globalist and internationalist interests instead.
Stay warm….
I live in rural North east San Diego County., Ca. I have a 200 panel solar array that powers my two meters to the extent that I have a credit balance of $2,400. I use electricity for most of my needs (radiant floor heat, well pump, washer and dryer, refrigiration …). I do use propane for cooking, a wall furnace and an on demand water heater. My propane costs have gone up over a dollar a gallon this last year. What is really the worst has been diesel fuel at almost $7.00 per gallon ($3.00 a gal with Trump).I live a long way (30 miles) from any major city so I only drive when I need to. Groceries on many items is up 100% and my feed (hay ,alfalfa, chicken grain) has doubled as well. I also have an abundance of fire wood and have been using my fireplace and wood burning stove for heat.
I’m going to take advantage of SDG&E rebates for a new electric heat exchange water heater and plant a large garden. Getting more ducks who free range for eggs because my chickens don’t fare well with the wild life if I free range them.
We have an RSF fireplace that heats the entire house with firewood. During a very, very cold winter and spring we burn 3 full cords from November through April. That’s $600 for the entire winter, or less, as I often get firewood for free.
Sorry about your luck if you don’t burn wood.
In Arizona a few years ago they(APS) were saying with their “INVESTMENT” in solar power rates would DECRESE. Guess what EVERY stinkin year they have gone up, up,up and now looking for another rate increase.
I deliver propane for a mid-sized Co-op in Iowa. Prices in late 2021 were $1.97/gallon, and didn’t drop in the summer of 2022 like it normally does. November 2022 it went up to $2.12/gallon, January 2023 it went up to $2.22.
I heat with fuel oil. February 2022 it was $2.20/gallon, October 2022 it spiked to $5.65/gallon, January 2023 it has dropped back to $2.66/gallon.
My guess my electric costs are up 10-20% this winter and I live in a “cheap” hydro energy state . (Idaho)
Most of the area is all in on Green Energy building a Battery storage plant that will provide Stored energy for 13,000 homes for 4 hours is considered a win!
I heat with a wood stove so the hit is not bad this winter. I’m buying swamp cooler for the summer to mitigate the electric costs.
I’m a disabled vet and I’m in good shape and expected this but it makes life a tad more challenging.
Very Timely.
We are in The OC… with SoCal Edison Power and SoCal Gas.
First… electric bill… we have an allotted baseline, on which our rates are based. There is a time of day (TOD) but that ones charges over 44 cents per KwH between 4 to 9 PM… so we didn’t take it.
Our winter baseline is 300 KwH per month, meaning one light bulb… one TV and one AT&T princess phone.
So.
Tier 1: 1-299KwH… $0.29 per KwH.
Tier 2: 299-1199 KwH.. $0.37 per KwH
Tier 3: above 1200 ( High Usage Charge ) $0.46 KwH
Or usage for last month was 970 KwH.. this includes charging our Honda Clarity PHEV twice a week (about 120 KwH).
These electric rates represent a 100% increase from a year ago.
Now the gas… SoCal Gas.
Our bill is broken into several trash charges, but our usage charge is as usual based on delivery and cost of purchase (procurement).
The cost of delivery went up 8% on January, but the cost of procurement is much more volatile. For December it was $0.75 (or so) per therm. It went up in January to ~$1.75 (or so per therm )… a full ONE DOLLAR INCREASE for therm of gas over ONE month.
So, for the bill we just got, we see a 375% increase for the cost of a therm of NG year to year, and about 33% increase of the overall bill from December 22 to January 23. About a 100% increase in our total bill year to year.
Here in SoCal we have mild weather… and our house is well insulated and our lights are 99% LED with modern, energy saving appliances… We have two natural gas furnaces with timers, zones, etc… NG water heater and stove. We have a Honda Clarity PHEV with a 17.5 Kw battery that we charge twice a week, overnight in the garage.
Our electric usage was $350 when it should have been $190.
Our gas usage was over $300 when it should have been $150.
All of my neighbors are up in arms over this… but the Mainstream Propaganda Machine is ignoring it. Or, rather, covering it but not covering the root cause. They never investigate the “WHY” anymore… it’s bad for their propaganda.
They did some coverage about the “sudden” increase of gas rates, but it was mostly a preventive move… for one day… after that, they are no longer covering it.
Let’s not even start to discuss our water bill!!!
FJB.
Ow ow ow, just, ow. 🙁
We moved into our small house in central IL in October of 2020. Our Gas and Electric are combined on one bill. We have gas heat. The cost has doubled within 2 years (usage has gone down, not up.) Our cable bill has also doubled. Chicken eggs (the new caviar) have increased 500%. The only reason we are surviving is that we bought our home during Trump’s economy. We were renting. I also convinced family to refinance or buy at that time and to stock up on as many essentials as possible. This, I fear, is just the beginning.
Over the quarter,
1. 40.00
2. 80.00
3. 100.00
I understand that more gas would be used in winter, however,
We recieved with the last bill a notice congratulating us on having used 20 % less than last year and the chart on the current bill shows that as well.
I live in FL. My bill has gone up $100 mo.
Eastern Pennsylvania here 1/24/22 ~ $296.66, 1/25/23 ~ $436.83. Nice that my power company warned me…Eh
Oklahoma City suburbs up ~%50 across gas and electric.
Spokane, East side of Washinton, electric went up a penny a unit, gas two pennys a unit, holding steady on my averaged payment scheme at $137 a month for my sparsely populated split-level home.
Feeling very blessed and praying for us all.
Hoping to install my soapstone wood-stove before the following winter, always been nervous without a wood-stove at the ready in snow country, cold can kill a house even if you have means to keep a single room warm for one’s own survival.
you will love your soapstone,have had ours close to 40 years.if fire goes out at 3 am & i get up at 5 stove still warm.
South Central Kansas 2020 paying $.14/kWh, 2022 $.166/kWh for my electric. Natural gas Feb. 2022 $7.4395 mcf and Jan 2023 $9.249 mcf. I was surprised to learn, in my area, wind was supplying 45% of the power and coal down to 34%. Eastern KS is supplied by Wolf Creek Nuclear plant. I have been able to absorb the increased cost, so far, but had a friend calling me crying over her $400+ electric bill in Enid, OK. She can’t absorb these increases. Sad.
I have a feeling that in time unlikely housemates will combine simply to combine income and minimize outgo.
Yeah, I know, well wed couples are the ideal, but we aren’t all so lucky.
Jacksonville Florida; 2021, 2020,2019, avg electric bills around 140 to 180 per month. Higher in Summer naturally. My last bill was over $300.00 for NOVEMBER! Electric averaging 26g to 300 NOW.
Cape Cod:
Electricity:
Dec 2021 $195
Dec 2022 $281
Gas:
Nov 2021 $52
Jan 2023 $137
West central WI. Elec ^ 14%, natural gas (cooking & heating) ^ 28%.
Usage consistent, year to year.
In northern CT our cost per k/Wh consistently hovered around 7-8 cents for at least the past few years. We must pay Eversource for delivery, but we have the option to choose an alternate energy supplier. I was lucky to lock in an 8.99 cent rate a year ago thru December 2024. Eversource now charges 24 cents and the cheapest alternate supplier rate is 15 cents. The delivery fee, however, continues to rise.
We are all electric but fortunately heat with a wood stove, so we are able to offset the electric costs somewhat. Our monthly summer bills usually run around $150 and as much as $500 in the winter, depending on the weather and how lazy we are when it comes to hauling the wood!
Ameren Illinois, My bill has gone up by around 1/3. My high winter bills normally will be just under 200 dollars. I have never went over 200 until this year. Last month was 285 and this months is projected over 300. The kicker is we are not yet in the traditional high use winter months!
Feels to me like they are punishing us for making them steal the vote by voting for Trump!
They went up enough that I immediately adjusted every thermostat in the house upon opening the first bill of the season.
I then bought some natural gas and oil stocks to hedge my new expense paradigm.
Never mind FPL. Florida homeowner’s insurance is a double from last year.
RdS will be right on that!
Wait . . .
Surreal how much utilities are in America in comparison to Mexico. Greed and regulations are killing USA. And the Green deal. Uuuggghhh
We have been fortunate to have a nuclear power plant supplying some of the load here in SW Florida. I think we have seen maybe a 15% increase in the cost of electricity. This will get a lot worse when FP&L is forced to shut down said plant because the NRC has refused to extend their operating license. The stated reason? Sea level rise in the future. No kidding.
+37% last month which is the baseline it’s been increasing.
Housemate and I have new rates for both gas and electric that take effect this month. We are in the midwest and our state requires by law a review every 4 years, and a justification for any rate increases before approval.
I will get to the Jan 2023 rate increases in a moment, but first I tho’t I’d share the alleged reasons/SPIN according to the gas company for their rate increase:
“First, let’s look at what’s driving the increase in the cost of goods.
Many factors are influencing the prices of items and services we use.
The price we pay for natural gas is reflected on your bill as the natural gas cost, with no markup passed along to our customers. You pay what we pay.
And to get the best possible prices for our customers, we continuously monitor the natural gas market and its fluctuating natural gas prices.
Lately, natural gas prices have increased due to:
Recent international events impacting the global supply of natural gas mean it costs more for us to purchase natural gas for our customers. Increased demand for natural gas due to hot summer months – Natural gas is used to generate electricity to keep homes and businesses cool. So as temperatures rose during heat waves this summer, so did the demand for natural gas. Higher demand means rising natural gas costs. Inflation – The U.S. and other countries around the world are experiencing a period of inflation, meaning the prices that individuals and companies pay for goods and services have increased during a period of high demand or limited supply.”
New Hampshire
Electricity up ~30%
Natural Gas up ~25%
This is the difference from last year which rose about ~15% from the year previous.
Electricity was about $100/mo last year ($75/mo year before) December bill was $130. All LED lighting throughout the house.
My biggest Winter heating bill with Natural Gas was $150 in the 15 years I have owned my house. December bill was $165 – and that wasn’t a cold December. Thermostat is down from 70 to 66 and the price isn’t reflecting that, January and February bills will be the tell, those are the 2 coldest months. February usually goes all month without ever rising above freezing.
FYI…
How LEDs Can Negatively Influence Our Health
By Conan Milner
11 Jan 2023
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/how-leds-can-negatively-influence-our-health_4973374.html
Current stats from Armstrong Economics.
FTA: Even if we look at inflation using the pre-1980 formulas, the CPI is approaching 10%! When we calculate inflation by eliminating everything that is really irrelevant and focusing on food, energy, transportation, and taxation, which they do not consider at all, the reality of our number came in at 32% for 2022. That is a far cry from the official number. This is simply calculated by Socrates from an unbiased perspective.
What a new wonderful world the Biden Administration has created. Thank you, COVID & the Russian Sanctions. The largest increase we found was obvious fuel between gasoline and diesel used in trucking and homes averaging 65%+ Turning to basic food, eggs were up nearly 50%, flour rose by 25%, cooking oil 23%, butter was up 35%, Chicken by 14%, and Rice by 18%. If we throw in toothpicks, paperclips, etc, then the more we can include the lower the inflation rate. We do not include rent or real estate. Our number is far more accurate to the daily living expenses than the near 10% level of the government. They also do not include sales taxes. The national average rise in rental rates was 7.8%, in Florida it was 8.5%, and in NYC 1.5% when controlled.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/inflation/here-we-go-again-altering-the-formula-for-cpi/
If the price for eggs in your area only increased 50%, consider yourself extremely fortunate. I live in a rural area of the Pee Dee in SC, and our egg prices here went from less than a dollar per dozen to over four dollars a dozen!
Woah! That’s a hike. I paid $4.89 for large dozen at Publix yesterday. The larger quantities were almost gone. Empty shelves.