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Gonz

Gonz

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You ought to see the power company.

CARLSBAD, Calif. - When police noticed Dina Dagy's family was spending $250 to $300 a month on electricity, they suspected a marijuana farm was flourishing under high-intensity lights inside their suburban home.

What they found when they showed up with a drug-sniffing dog and a search warrant was a wife and mother who does several loads of laundry a day, keeps a dishwashing machine going, has three electricity-guzzling computers and three kids who can't remember to turn the lights out when they leave a room.
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How, exactly, did the "police notice" a power bill from a private comapny to a consumer? (yes, I saw the paragragh later in the story)If you ain't paying cash & staying under the table they know everything

AP
 
Jeez, mine too. My december bill was $250, Jan. was $270 and Feb. was $290. Turns out my air unit had gone south on me. I then had to spend $2700 to get it replaced.
 
I don't know about you guys but a mid-summer utility bill (when air unit is working properly) runs about $150-$175.....mid-winter is about the same.
 
alex said:
I don't know about you guys but a mid-summer utility bill (when air unit is working properly) runs about $150-$175.....mid-winter is about the same.
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Well, I run the pool pump non-stop in the heat of the summer, I'm certain that contributes. I have an in ground pool.

Edit: Oh, and my house is around 2800 sq. ft. which doesn't help either.
 
I was stuck with an air conditioner that wasn't worth a shit in my first apartment. It could run non-stop the entire day and the temperature would still get over 100 in the kitchen. The manager refused to do anything about it (they only have to provide heat, apparently) besides send the maintenance guy to replace the thermostat and top off the freon.

So I had the double-whammy of a $260 power bill and 100-degree temps in the kitchen. If it were $260 with an interior temperature of 70, things would have been different. The current apartment has more-efficient wall units in the front and back instead of a central unit, and that combined with newer and more efficient appliances and some actual insulation mean my bills don't get much above $70 at any time of the year.
 
I loved DWP in LA. We had electric everything & A/C. We got our bill bimonthly & it never exceeded $50.
 
Inkara1 said:
Which power company are you with? My money was padding PG&E's coffers.
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A very small, rural co-op in southern Indiana. Generation and transmition, not consumer sales.

rrfield
 
Co-ops aren't that bad. Neither is GA Power, to be honest. Power costs aren't that high around here.
 
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