My brother's exploding power bill.

[Motown_Johnny]

11. That isn't very high IMO

I live in an old wood frame house, maybe a little bigger than his (3 bdrm, 1 bath) and have gas heat. My bills are higher than his are.

Of course I am in Detroit and we get cold up here. Since I don't know where he lives it is hard for me to compare.

I don't see any way of bills being around twenty five bucks a month if he is heating his house with electricity. My electric bill is around that number in the spring and fall when I am neither heating nor cooling my house (much).

If you really want to get into the weeds with this you could just do some math.

*Calculate Usage. Divide the number of watts by 1000 and multiply the result by 1.5. Multiply this result by the cost per kilowatt-hour of electricity for the cost per hour to use your heater. A 1500-watt heater costs about 15 cents per hour to operate.*


So in very round numbers.. say the heater is running 20 hours a day at 15 cents per hour. That is three bucks a day per space heater. Times that by 30 days in a month and you are at ninety bucks per heater per month. Then you need to add in your regular electrical usage from appliances etc.

One sixty doesn't seem high to me, unless he is in a warm climate.