Electricity and cows

[cowman]

I just got my power bill for Dec. and was a little shocked at how much it had gone up. For the two houses/one farmyard it came to $260! Now let me explain I am real cheap when it comes to electricity and NG. Shop heated with a high efficient wood furnace...no tractor plugged in. No yard lights. No cattle waterer in the winter...use a hydrant and tank with a wood heater in the corrals. Cows drink out of springs. No vehicles plugged in.
So I figure It costs me about two old cows a month to pay the power bill! Lets see...in about fifty months they will be gone! Well if they don't raise the rates...

[kato]

We have electric heat in the house, 4 water bowls, 3 yard lights, one tractor, one car, one truck plugged in. This month's hydro bill is $350.00. (The shop doesn't even have a door, much less heat!) :-0

Manitoba rates. Don't know if that works out to a good deal or not. It drops to about $50 in the summer.

[smcgrath76]

Interesting...
A good story for you.
My parents got their power bill for December. $12,000.
Yard light isn't working at the moment, no cable/satellite television, tractor was plugged in ocassionally.
Seems when they came to read the meter they figured it had turned over (like your odometer) and they billed for a couple of hundred Joules, plus a complete cycle of roughly 1,000,000 extra joules. After it was all sorted out, it appears they were overpaying and had a credit.

[Horse]

Lets thank Ralph and ofcourse dont forget Steve (wonder) WEst I was a director on an REA at the time of dereg what a fiasco if it wasnt for all the money in alta they would have had to give it up we as aboard had a new set of regs every board meeting but Ralph idnt dare and Steve was the most AROGANT s-b I have aver met

[cowman]

Sean: When that bill was opened it would have been priceless to see the reaction?
The PCs have created a monster here with deregulation. When ideology gets in the way of common sense someone loses...in this case the Alberta people! It is frustrating when the government ignores the wishes of the people and just bulls ahead. The insurance SNAFU is typical. By the governments own polls the overwhelming majority of Albertans wanted public insurance but they have ignored that voice and pushed on with an expensive and silly program that will see safe drivers paying more.