We live in the middle of town so each month we receive bills for all of our different utilities. What has been bothering me lately is the "access fee" associated with each service.
- Natural Gas (stove/oven/water heater/home heat)
* Total: $14.58
* Actual Natural Gas Usage: $2.90
- Electric
* Total: $10.00
* Actual Electricity Usage: $0.00
- Sewage
* $16.70 based on 7000 gallons of monthly water usage
* Our primary water usage is for watering the garden (which doesn't
effect the sewer system)
- Trash
* $16.81 this is just what they charge anyone who is commercial with trash
Basically it doesn't save me much to conserve like crazy. The access fees of roughly $10 per service are almost always larger than our actual usage. We really need to work towards disconnecting from all of these services. The most difficult would probably be our $55 cable modem. Oddly enough our internet connection costs more than all of our utilities combined.
4 comments:
I wonder if you could go together with a couple of your neighbors and split the internet bill, then set up a wireless network so each of you have access.
When are you going to kill off 2 or 3 of these bills and put in a composting toilet and use the methane output as cooking gas, as they do in China, as this interview podcast with Rose George on waste management says.
Does NM buy back excess electric?
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