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Poco Loco

On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:48:56 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:15:58 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 1/21/2014 5:16 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:34:31 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:27:40 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 1/21/2014 10:11 AM, Hank wrote:
On 1/21/2014 9:25 AM, amdx wrote:

How else would you do it?

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 13 percent of
residential electrical energy use is for lighting.

The same agency states that the US average monthly bill for residential
electricity for June, July and August of 2013 was $395. Seems a
little high to me, but again, it's the average for the whole nation.

So, assuming those numbers are close, 13 percent of $395 is $51.25.

Switching to LED lighting that consumes a fraction of the power would
have a serious impact on that cost. So, Hank's numbers don't sound
totally out of the ballpark.

My electric bills for the past year:

Payment Date Payment Amount
01/17/2014 $142.69
12/16/2013 $119.33
11/18/2013 $112.94
10/16/2013 $123.35
09/16/2013 $146.15
08/30/2013 $139.61
08/02/2013 $174.59
06/28/2013 $133.67
06/05/2013 $89.89
04/29/2013 $99.16
04/29/2013 $107.83
04/01/2013 $100.91

Average is $124.18. Wow. You've improved my disposition immensely with that post!

Do you also have a water bill and a gas bill? Add those to the
electric bill for an apples to apples comparison.

Apples to apples of what? We were talking about electricity costs and
specifically the cost for lighting.

If all he posts is the dollar total of his bill, we need to know what
is in that bill to have it mean anything.
If he is heating everything with nat gas and the city is pumping his
water, he should have a low electric bill.

Nationally I'm sure there are many in the same situation. I don't pump my own water and I heat with
natural gas. But so do millions of other who figure into the 'US average'.