Our power bill is ridiculous. When we moved from our ancient 1200 sq foot split level condo that had prehistoric appliances, as well as, a rickety computer that I know wasn't this new fan-dangled "energy efficient" computer. Our power bill was like $40 a month! Then we moved into a town about 30 km away from e-town into a small 700 sq foot apartment that is brand new, so all energy efficient appliances, we also bought a brand new computer. Our power bill you ask? $70-$80 a month! How is that even possible?
We(I) decided about 6 weeks ago to try and limit our power consumption to try and bring it back down to the $40 mark and save some money. I consciously watched to make sure that the cell phone chargers were unplugged immediately after the cell phone was done, unplugged the microwave, bread maker, toaster oven, and coffee maker. I stopped drying our clothes in the dryer(watch for a post on that one), turned off lights ect. So yes, I changed a huge amount for our family.
No here is my problem. I received my power bill this month and for the first time REALLY read it. Alright I know something I probably should have done forever ago but yeah. It shocked me. I am paying $40 extra dollars in fees. Why? There is a distribution fee, an administration fee, transmission charge, 2010 transmission adjustment rider, local access fee. I'm sorry ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Is there any other company that has it so cushy? As far as I know as a company if YOU want any of these things they are built into what you supply. Another words you don't get to make extra money charging extra for everything.
What would happen if a restaurant decided to start charging $1.00 dish-washing fee, $2.00 hostess fee, $3.00 ice water fee, $0.50 power fee...you see how ridiculous this is? No wonder Epcor is such a rich company. It was mind boggling when I realized this. This means even if I use no power I will NEVER be under less then $40 a month on my power bill.
Now maybe I'm over reacting but really? It doesn't seem to make sense. Is it because we are in a small town? Or maybe it's because we are seriously complacent in Canada, and don't really put up a fight when a company continues to charge extra for stuff because what can I do? I was watching a news article a few weeks back that was talking about the power supplier wanting us(the consumer) to pay for a failed business deal that cost billions. It would work out to $5.00 a year/customer. They were interviewing one guy who simply said that he was to busy to worry about $5 spread over a year. If this is how all these fee's showed up then that explains a lot. But why should we pay for that? Any company that has a failed deal even if they spent money to make to deal just has to cut their losses, apparently the world of power just works differently. Please feel free to correct me or at least enlighten me if I'm maybe not doing something right? I don't know all I know is gone are my cheap power bills and that sucks!
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