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Hank

On 1/21/2014 10:04 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:43:12 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:16:37 -0500, wrote:

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

No, he said, "...US average monthly bill for residential
electricity..." Do you imagine none of those had gas or water? Why would water consumption affect my
electric bill? Yes, I have gas, but my gas bill wouldn't be affected by LED light bulbs. In fact,
since they burn much cooler than incandescent, my gas bill would probably go up in the winter. But
maybe I'd use less electricity in the summer for the air conditioner.

I was just trying to point out that if you heat air and water with gas
and the city pumps your water, the bill will be lower.

I run 2 water pumps for every drop of water that comes into the house
an electric water heater, dryer and whatever heat we use,

If I threw away every lamp in my house and used coleman lanterns, it
wouldn't save me $30 a month off my electric bill. That is 580 watts
dawn to dusk. I wouldn't have that much light on of a stampede of
bison ran around my house and tripped every motion sensor ... and they
would all turn off 4 minutes later.

I think this thread suffered topic drift. No point in continuing.