My electricity bill is about $96 for the month just past, $20 more than last month with the increased prices for April.
I am cold all the time, I'm 76, when I was 65 when I got here used to have the heat pump on 12degC but now I'm older can't do that anymore. I have my heat pump on 14degC to 16degC depending on the weather, admittedly I am in Chch.
Never use my stove, it's switched off at the wall, gas hob never used, don't trust it. I use microwave and air fryer sparingly and very rarely boil a kettle since I went off tea and coffee, have very few showers.
I don't sleep in my bedroom for the last two years since it's too cold I sleep next to the heat pump in a room closed off to the rest of a modern flat with double glazing on about half of the windows.
We are being ripped of mightily by the supply companies.
So much for the market place and competition, I can remember back in the late seventies when I paid $29 for 3 months electricity when it was still Nationalized and was called the MED.
I am cold all the time, I'm 76, when I was 65 when I got here used to have the heat pump on 12degC but now I'm older can't do that anymore. I have my heat pump on 14degC to 16degC depending on the weather, admittedly I am in Chch.
Never use my stove, it's switched off at the wall, gas hob never used, don't trust it. I use microwave and air fryer sparingly and very rarely boil a kettle since I went off tea and coffee, have very few showers.
I don't sleep in my bedroom for the last two years since it's too cold I sleep next to the heat pump in a room closed off to the rest of a modern flat with double glazing on about half of the windows.
We are being ripped of mightily by the supply companies.
So much for the market place and competition, I can remember back in the late seventies when I paid $29 for 3 months electricity when it was still Nationalized and was called the MED.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche