Larry Caldwell
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Only a solar battery maintainer at the barn where I park the tractor in the winter. Getting a diesel started is one of the few places I really need electricity.
Electricity Price Increases
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DarkBlack
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How do you make coffee in the warm months when the woodstove isn’t running?
No refrigerator, freezers, modem, microwaves, lights, computer, vacuum cleaners?
No hair dryer for a woman, dishwasher, washing machine?
Blender, stereo system , TV, battery charger, security camera?
You mention no well pump, so no pump to move water within your house? No AC, obviously, but not even a ceiling fan?
You don’t have battery devices that need to be charged? No garage door openers? Soldering iron? Table saw,drill press, welder,….Nothing?
JRH02
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This will be an interesting back and forth.
How do you make coffee in the warm months when the woodstove isn’t running?
No refrigerator, freezers, modem, microwaves, lights, computer, vacuum cleaners?
No hair dryer for a woman, dishwasher, washing machine?
Blender, stereo system , TV, battery charger, security camera?
You mention no well pump, so no pump to move water within your house? No AC, obviously, but not even a ceiling fan?
You don’t have battery devices that need to be charged? No garage door openers? Soldering iron? Table saw,drill press, welder,….Nothing?
I would bet I'll end up on both sides. I like some technology things. I just don't like fees and subscriptions which, BTW, those costs are getting way out of tolerance.
DarkBlack
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My cable tv bill ( before I dropped it), was 180% of my electric bill…. And the cable TV modem required electricity!
I know people who still pay more for cable, or more for a cellphone plan than they do for electricity. That’s nuts.
To me, electricity to my house, is 100x more important than a cellphone plan, or cable tv.
The only things that are truly necessity are:
Air
Water
Food
Sex/companionship is a distant 4th
Living in this century, I’d say, electricity ranks up there as the
5th highest necessity, followed by public healthcare as #6
After that everything else is convenience, not necessity
That's me, but I don't think it's nuts. My power bill is for a refrigerator, 2 freezers, water pump and smal hot water heater .
Also occasionally fire up my welder.
My power bill is about 35$/ month.
My cellphone bill is 92$/ month. It's also my only phone and internet access right now, including running my work laptop.
Can you find cell service to do that for less?
Eagle1
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I pay more for a landline.... but no cell service here...
That's why I gave up my landline/internet.
The phone had so much static I could barely hear anybody, and my internet genuinely had me missing the days of dialup.
Eagle1
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Yet it works here and they are pulling fiber to every home.... No cell and even Starlink is sketchy here in the woods. I would have to drive a few miles to get a cell signal, kids use wifi setup off the copper lines to use their phones.
DarkBlack
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No lights?, no microwave?, computer, modem, router, or cellphone that needs to be charged? No vacuum cleaner, toaster, ..etc…?
They stopped fiber at the next house up, about 3200 feet away. I haven't asked what it'll cost to bring it the rest of the way.