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Miscellaneous => Garage Gripes => Topic started by: sammons on February 22, 2021, 10:21:54 PM

Title: Are they serious!
Post by: sammons on February 22, 2021, 10:21:54 PM
Local news has been talking the 12 day cold spike in natural gas is gonna cost us BIG! NG price last month $3.89 per MCF, estimated Local new rate $320 per MCF! 🤯

To put that in perspective...the bills i just paid, i used 13.4 MCF  at $3.89 per MCF = $52.12 in NG and a total bill of $111.66 with meter chg, delivery chg and taxes of all kinds. My Electric bill was $54.11.  Now,  math is not my stong suit, but say this month i used 14.4 MCF, @ $320 MCF. That's $4,608 of NG not including the 45% BS charges🤯

Govenor said she's going to look into price gouging, ya right. They will make an excuse how Texas/souther Oklahoma drove demand up....even though the lines were froze and they didn't recieve said gas😡

My neighbor said a friend works the substations and spent 2 nights babysiting lines up here injecting methanol in lines to keep moving. Granted, that added an expense....but not that damn much. After all thats there resopnseability to deliver....right?🥴
Title: Re: Are they serious!
Post by: sixball on February 22, 2021, 11:50:05 PM
I heard some of this today that already some folks in Texas are being faced with thousands in power bills. It may be the first of Biden's plan to make fossil fuels to expensive to use. That is a ridiculous increase and far beyond people's ability to pay but it's not a product you can get just anywhere. I wonder how long people will put up with this crap?
Title: Re: Are they serious!
Post by: 62131 on February 23, 2021, 07:01:48 AM
There's no reason for that kind of increase, there's always alternative Wood oh that won't work the damn tree huger will get upset
Title: Re: Are they serious!
Post by: chopper526 on February 23, 2021, 09:26:57 AM
My neighbor said a friend works the substations and spent 2 nights babysiting lines up here injecting methanol in lines to keep moving. Granted, that added an expense....but not that damn much. After all thats there resopnseability to deliver....right?

That's the rub, you would think they have a responsibility but if they fail there are no repercussions, they just say "sorry, it was out of our hands". See how that works if you say, sorry, I can't pay my bill.
Title: Re: Are they serious!
Post by: sixball on February 23, 2021, 01:46:08 PM
You'd think that sometimes an " act of God "would be in our favor. After all............?  ::) I know I'm out on a limb here but if he took a week to create all of this he could fix it in a day if for no other reason than to protect his investment.  :o
Title: Re: Are they serious!
Post by: FATnLOW on June 15, 2021, 09:02:12 PM
Hope you all don't need Freon for your home A/C.....talked to the guys that work on my son's A/C he told me  Freon took a $30.00 jump for a 24 lb container on Fri...Said he went down to get some Monday but already took another $30.00 jump..$60.00 jump in 3 days!!!!
Title: Re: Are they serious!
Post by: EDNY on June 15, 2021, 09:16:21 PM
Hope you all don't need Freon for your home A/C.....talked to the guys that work on my son's A/C he told me  Freon took a $30.00 jump for a 24 lb container on Fri...Said he went down to get some Monday but already took another $30.00 jump..$60.00 jump in 3 days!!!!

Seriously..what hasn't gone up in price! :o
Title: Re: Are they serious!
Post by: chopper526 on June 15, 2021, 09:24:30 PM
Everything is getting a little crazy. Lumber is up 400%, milk up 30%.....
Title: Re: Are they serious!
Post by: 62131 on June 15, 2021, 10:00:18 PM
Had both my units serviced 2 months ago  call me lucky
Title: Re: Are they serious!
Post by: sixball on June 16, 2021, 01:29:20 PM
I guess I'm the lucky one this time. Here evaporative coolers work well. Our water runs out of the ground from springs and we make the electricity to run the fan.  :) I do hope our battery bank holds up until some of this calms down or until I can steal a Tesla.  :o
Title: Re: Are they serious!
Post by: chopper526 on June 16, 2021, 08:43:29 PM
I don't want to jinx myself, but our home A/C is the original unit from the late 1970's. We've been in the house for about 15 years and never a problem with it.....yet ::) However, the A/C on my wife's Nissan Quest just started blowing warm.
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