Our World and Everything in It

I received my energy bill for this past cold blast. I’m on an energy reserve system so I’m lucky. I said lucky not happy. I use MXenergy that locks in my rate at $.851 which is the rate after the @ and ccf amount.  This is the url http://www.gasgeorgia.com/mxenergy/plans-prices.html, if anyone is interested in locking in for the next 3 years at $1.19, which is higher than my .851, but I switched the end of summer 2005. I’m surprised the prices aren’t higher than the $1.19.  Prices change weekly, so 7 days from now it might change.

 
 A reminder also, this rate is  locked in during the summer which usually drops to a lower rate of $.30-$.40’s. So know this, you will be paying the higher rate of $1.19 instead of those low $.30’s. But then most of us don’t use much natural gas in the summer. If I can get my husband to put up a clothesline, I’ll have no problem drying my clothes that way. Whites get soooo bright dried in the sun, and that wonderful smell. I’ve always got something drying on my deck railing. I don’t turn the oven on in the summer either. The grill is king.  So it’s all about what individual needs are.  If the only gas you use is for heat, than go for it.  Your regular energy service will charge a fee to carry the stuff to you, but it’s small. If I had over 2000 sq. ft. to heat, I would definitely look into this plan.  I would manage to install a couple of solar panels inconspicuously somewhere on my roof to save on my electric bill also.  See Bob Vila’s site for a good explanation as to how these panels really work, http://www.bobvila.com/BVTV/Bob_Vila/Episode-0224.html. They work like the shingled panels I want to invent, darn it.

 
What the episode explains is that just two solar panels can cut your bills significantly. These aren’t big black panels that stand up like road signs.  They look a little like skylights now. My shingled panels would be a whole lot better but don’t exist yet.  Unused electricity from your energy provider is stored. The solar panel electricity is used first. Stored energy registers back as a credit and that little wheel on your meter goes in reverse. Imagine that, especially after this past cold snap.

 
If global warming continues there will be more and more erratic weather. Global warming doesn’t mean everyone everywhere is going to fry. Other places will freeze according to fluctuating jet streams. A jet stream dip allowed the past freeze to drift down from Canada on us. It’s better to be prepared. Keep your fingers crossed spring doesn’t show up looking good only to turn into a monster. Tornadoes are worse than snowstorm, or are they? What do you think? What would be worse, a tornado or hurricane?

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