I’ve seen stories about other countries beginning to implement work from home, mandating places shut down by a certain time, etc. Would the US government start doing similar things out of necessity? I imagine things getting more expensive will do that naturally but probably not to the levels needed if oil goes to $200. Can’t imagine the current admin jumping to enforce anything that looks like a Covid shutdown though. Just curious what people here think, because it seems like it’s going to get tight sooner rather than later.
Surely it’s only the electricity over 1000kWh that gets billed at the reduced rate?
No 🙃
Just opened up the spreadsheet again:
1093 kWh was $100.65 in July ($0.09/kWh)
906 kWh was $199.53 in August ($0.22/kWh)
I could’ve saved $100 in August if I wasted excessively :D
What the fuck?
OP would also get the discounted rate if, instead of wasting the electricity, they used it to charge batteries.
The same way that buying 3 sixpacks of Coke (18) is slightly more expensive than buying a full case (24). If you buy the “extra” six cans, you get a discount. But you wouldn’t then walk outside and dump the extra sixpack in the dirt - you’d drink them.
Turning a big potentiometer attached to a cable running straight into the Earth and looking back at the electric company like a contestant on The Price is Right.