By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh —— Bio and Archives--March 24, 2023
Recently, our natural gas utilities started to mail its customers a “nudging” letter, colorfully printed in green, blue, and black, under the guise of helping customers decide how much gas they consumed, compared to previous months and to homes of similar size in the area. The fact that they had access to such data and took the time to find homes of similar size in the area is bothersome enough.
Having access to such data, the gas company is letting us know whether we consumed more gas than “efficient homes” or more/less than similar homes, all described in “therms.” The therms were colored in green for efficient, blue for your home, and black for similar homes.
A quick search revealed that a “therm” is a “unit of heat equivalent to 100,000 Btu or 1.055 x 108 joules.” Since physics is not my forte, it might as well be in Greek. The gas company wrote that “a therm is a standard unit of measurement used to calculate natural gas use.”
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By Centrewing on 2023 03 21
Again a for sure article the actual facts are right on.
My gas heating bill has more than tripled and so has the electric and water/sewer bill. And yes, they compare them always to neighbors which is hilarious because I know my neighbors and we discuss this and compare. When my gas bill was at its highest this year they stupidly wrote that we had used way less gas this year compared to last year but the same happened to my neighbors then Februaries bill came and they tell me I used way more this year than last, same with my neighbors? the funnier part was three of the homes are much bigger than mine with more people living in them and two of them paid less than me and the other paid more. I live in the smallest house and have a small boiler and rads which used to be the cheapest by a lot. They all have forced air furnaces and years ago used to pay over one hundred dollars more than me a month. We hear that first they hire a foreign company that hires people to come and read meters, then another company in India bills us, and another charges us all and we pay another whatever all these people decide, so no one can discuss why the bills are this way?
Of course what was Canada has carbon taxes and they are tripling them April first? Next year if I am still here I am wondering how I will afford this on my fixed retirement income but I have a son and daughter now moved in they say they will help me with this next year thankfully.
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