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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | hows this for heating costs....m
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | mruggles - 2017-02-07 11:37 AM hows this for heating costs....m
Is that in US money? We dont have to worry about heating here its going to around 88 today... |
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Location: British Columbia | Ugh.
I filled my propane about a month ago, it was $300 (on top of the $800 we paid to fill it in the fall). *sigh*
ETA- You still win!! Lol
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | No this is in alberta..and seeing as how it was -36 yesterday and today is -32...we need heat...m |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | My propane bill to date is almost 2000.....i put in 1063 in oct and topped it up in dec (before the levy came in) for another 722.....and my tank is less than half full....m |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | Gotta pay for that "free" health care somehow.
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Only idiots think its free....m |
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Location: Upstate New York | Not really sure how to read your billing. In general what does it average per ton for coal? Here we are paying $243 us$ for 1 ton bulk coal with us hauling. Free delivery if you take 3 ton minimum. The prebagged coal is $287 a ton. We've already gone thru 2 ton and I am needing another. Normally we only use about 2.5 ton. Not this yr....Oh, and that doesn't include the propane delivery's we've had. |
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| Wow, and I complain about my 250 - 300 dollar electric bill we get for 6 or 7 months out of the year! I think I'll stay down here in hot South Texas.  |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Our power bill ranges from 300 to dam near 600 in the winter. ..m |
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Location: Northern Ontario | haha....wanna talk about ridiculous hydro? Move to Ontario.... such a scam :( |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | Just think, if the taxes were not almost 48% of the bill you could have bought more coal.
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| mruggles - 2017-02-07 11:37 AM
hows this for heating costs....m
Wow, how long does this last you?
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Location: Windoming | What is really sad is that it's shipped out of Wyoming for $14/ton..........
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | This isnt my receipt. ..just one that a friend posted on fb....and ir doesnt last that long as he posted at the beginning of jan his first carbon tax added bill. ....m |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | SuperTrooper - 2017-02-08 1:13 PM
haha....wanna talk about ridiculous hydro? Move to Ontario.... such a scam :(
I have heard they are bad as well....m |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | How is this even affordable... I can't imagine....
My propane tank is only for our hot water heater. $100 was added back in July and I still have yet to refill it...
The rest of our tiny home is electric. When old faithful goes out we will switch to a tankless -electric hotwater heater.
In your opinion mruggles, how do you think this will play out??? Do you think people will find other ways to heat their homes? Is that even an option in ab? Surely there are more cost efficient ways than to pay that tax! Wow... |
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Location: MT | I lived in a house that had a furnace that used heating oil back when the fuel prices were really high (still are, but thankfully are less than they were!). It was costing me $800 to fill the heating oil tank, which would only last me 6 weeks. This was in addition to building a fire in an inefficient old fireplace insert every morning and night. It was ridiculous! Loved living there but just could not afford it. I remember going and buying 5 gallon jugs of red dye diesel and burning that in the furnace to make it between fill ups. Urghhhh! |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | IRunOnFaith - 2017-02-08 2:05 PM
How is this even affordable... I can't imagine....
My propane tank is only for our hot water heater. $100 was added back in July and I still have yet to refill it...
The rest of our tiny home is electric. When old faithful goes out we will switch to a tankless -electric hotwater heater.
In your opinion mruggles, how do you think this will play out??? Do you think people will find other ways to heat their homes? Is that even an option in ab? Surely there are more cost efficient ways than to pay that tax! Wow...
I have no idea....this new government both fed and provincial is just piling on the taxes.....we have a wood fireplace but its as useful as tits on a boar...want to switch it out with a wood stove but my insurance company wont cover me then...would love to set up solar but thats a huge expense...50thou ish...m |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | The old carbon tax scam. What a joke. |
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | My power was $545 for one month (one person in Ontario). Just put in a propane furnace so I wouldn't have to use electric along with my wood heat. Wood stove alone can't keep up with my house. A week and a half supply - 100lbs tank cost $89 for me going to get it filled. I can't get the bullet tank put in until spring. Ground is too frozen and we have too much snow. Hopefully it saves some money on the power bill to make up for the extra cost. Over winter already...  I guess you can tack it to the $40,000 in home improvements I've done this year to try and cut costs and conserve.
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Its dam high everywhere....Whats your wood cost....m |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | I hope to hell people here in the U.S. realize that the progressives will never let go of their mission to impose a carbon tax on us.
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | I'm burning some left over from logging last winter. I kept some back split it myself and am using that. It goes for $1200 plus trucking on average a tandem load though. Not cheap either and that's usually green. Cut and split it is around $90 a face cord |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | This whole thing just blows my mind...
My old flat bed Farm Truck runs on Propane as well as gas. I put an attachment on our tank and fill my truck that way. Pump was $500. Worth it to not pay tax when I fill my truck... I can't imagine paying that tax....
Does ab have a minimum wage set? I'm trying to figure out how people afford this... |
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | IRunOnFaith - 2017-02-07 3:05 PM
How is this even affordable... I can't imagine....
My propane tank is only for our hot water heater. $100 was added back in July and I still have yet to refill it...
The rest of our tiny home is electric. When old faithful goes out we will switch to a tankless -electric hotwater heater.
In your opinion mruggles, how do you think this will play out??? Do you think people will find other ways to heat their homes? Is that even an option in ab? Surely there are more cost efficient ways than to pay that tax! Wow...
The carbon tax got put on all fossil fuels and electric along with sales
tax and what ever other fees the government take from us. If you lived up here and had electric everything your bill would be upwards of $1000 a month I bet if not closer to $1500 with you conserving as much as possible. I had a geothermal furnace with backup electric and I was paying $750 plus a month too... It was supposed to be energy efficient. I would jump on natural gas if I could; but there is no line near my house and my options are limited. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | A cord here is 120...i try to get my own in the summer....and at the moment albertas minimum wage is 12.20...we have no natural gas in our area either..... .m
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | We have an all electric house and my last bill was $132.00 and we keep it at 70 in the winter and 74 in the summer. We live in Texas. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Nevertooold - 2017-02-11 8:47 PM
We have an all electric house and my last bill was $132.00 and we keep it at 70 in the winter and 74 in the summer. We live in Texas.
Ok..we should arrive in 4 days...we have 14 horses.4 dogs.2 cats...we be moving in...brent even said hed pay the electric bill...lol....m....p.s.if we could swing it texas is where we would be :) |
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Location: OH. IO | Electric was 98.00.we also have a gas well on our property so we have free gas.I couldn't imagine paying those bills!!! |
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | mruggles - 2017-02-11 9:16 AM
Nevertooold - 2017-02-11 8:47 PM
We have an all electric house and my last bill was $132.00 and we keep it at 70 in the winter and 74 in the summer. We live in Texas.
Ok..we should arrive in 4 days...we have 14 horses.4 dogs.2 cats...we be moving in...brent even said hed pay the electric bill...lol....m....p.s.if we could swing it texas is where we would be : )
I'm comin too! I'll be bringing 25 horses, 2 dogs, 6 cats and 6 parrots. I can help pay bills too plus my own way and my animals. Texas or Louisiana is where my heart is.
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