And to think I about crapped when I got this month's bill at $75. The last one was $41. Difference was air conditioning.
If I ever got a $75.00 electric bill, My fat A$$ would be doing cart wheels!!! I think the cheapest we've every seen was when we were gone for two weeks and it was still $125.00. We are charged "I believe" $27.50 just to have a line coming to the house. If I turned my main breaker off for a month, I would still get a $27.50 charge. I keep telling you this is Hell! I believe everyone in N.J. has this, some counties are more depending on your county. It's N.J.'s way of saying "hello"tax...
Don't laugh! If Murphy has his way it just may happen!!! Do you have the "Rain tax" there Andy? We do, businesses are furious! I'm waiting for the ammunition tax next! That's already on the books in California, and what ever they do, they follow here!!!
Our electric bill is between 100 and 125 most months. We also have a fixed charge and it is just over 30 per month. Cost of elec. is 11.9 cents per kilowatt.
Give it time... Your politicians haven't look hard enough at it yet. Wait till they start hammering the power companies and "Carbon emissions" your's too will go up!
We usually get a charge with a crazy obfuscated name for say $0.00012345/kWh. It's lumped in with the delivery charge so they can claim our electricity cost is on par with the rest of the nation . My electric generation charge is 11.367 ¢ per kWh, but my bill for 98 kW is $28.74, not $11.14, which makes my electric "rate" $0.29326/kWh, not $0.11367/kWh. Now if we used a more typical 300-600kWh per month our $7 charge would end up being spread across a larger volume of kWh and my "rate" would be closer to 24¢/kWh. It hasn't taken long for our monthly "customer charge" to go from $0.00 to $7. The "customer charge" is the result of allowing alternative companies as providers. The customer charge here is supposedly /purportedly the cost of billing which is pretty much the only thing the differing providers can discount (unless they are also reselling generated power at a profit as well) The delivery charge can and does vary because maintenance costs of infrastructure is constantly varying . One or two hurricanes or northeasters and our bills go up the costs spread out across several months. A nice quiet period weather-wise and our bills go down ( or not up more). The providers supposedly have to request a rate increase from the regulators for delivery and almost always get it.
The coop justifies their monthly fixed cost to the price of providing the service. Poles, wire, transformers all cost the same to get power to a home. It doesn't make any difference if the customer uses $10 worth of electric or $1,000 of electric. The cost for the infrastructure is the same and that is what they say the fixed charge is for. The coop's service area is mostly rural which means not a lot of customers per mile of line.
5 skids. couple 2 by's. handful of screws, rubber roofing, done. I'd agree to wasting the first layer, but you lose more than just the first layer and the lower rows don't dry very good. the air flow under the stack really helps. I don't have time or energy to spend on cribbed ends.
If I ever get around to stacking it this weekend -- I'll definitely post a picture. I'm dragging my feet, man.
Yeah! I consider it a victory that I was able to clean up the wood splitting area last night. Those things are great but man can they leave about a bunch of crap. Shattered bark, shattered trees, and shattered dreams. Maybe I get to it tonight -- possibly Sunday.
