Wondering What Everyone is Paying on Their Gas Bills

Bonnie said:
I live in a small one bedroom apartment, with only electric heat. My bill for this month is $70, with the thermostat set between 68-70.
Being on the 3rd floor, I get the advantage of having warm floors.
The summer months down here are the high bills, when the A/C is constantly running.
Click to expand...
$70.00 doesn't sound bad for electric heat. Only a few dollars more than what I paid this month. I think Electric heat usually cost more than natural gas.
 
Aunt Bea said:
Heat and hot water are included in my rent.

The utility bill for electricity and cooking gas is approx $53.00/month. When I review the bill it is interesting to me that I rarely exceed the minimum usage and the fees are for the basic service, taxes, etc...

One thing to look at in the months that seem a little higher is the number of days in the billing cycle from one month to another. My bill sometimes hits $60.00/month not because of increased usage but because of the longer billing cycle.

For me, being on the grid is an amazing value and convenience.

6ad96458c8cdeb33493ef5a2017c7cae.jpg
Click to expand...
I associate with this picture so well.

Everything was real back in those days, real wood doors, real wood paneling, many had area rugs to help warm rooms, there was always something simmering on one of the wood cook-stove elements, life was more pure and natural.

I can still smell the scent of burning wood mixed with smoke, when granny would light the wood cook-stove early in the morning. We'd remain in bed under thick wool quilts until gran, would call us into the kitchen once warm.

The house creaked, the wind could be heard through the drafty windows, but not once do I remember getting a chill, and there was no need to bundle up, because there was plenty of wood, and keeping the house warmer rather than cooler was the way.

Two string-lines were located directly above and behind the wood cook-stove, so that granny could hang up her linen tea towels and anything else she had that was damp, and of course there was no running water back in those days, so situating ones cabin or home close to a water source was key, to avoid having to go far for fresh water.

A pail of ice cold creek water sat towards one end of the counter for drinking, and a regular plain old ladle was used to dip into the water bucket to select your drink.

Coffee bubbled and simmered all day long in an old-fashioned percolator coffee pot, and never once do I remember granny not having anything on hand to serve with a piping hot cup of brew.

There was endless property to explore, and we'd go from morning until night, and when weather turned hot, out came the old galvanized tubs that hung on the outside wall of granny's house, and once filled with refreshing cold creek water, the tubs served as our swimming pool and cooling off place.

What warm memories I have of such times.
 

My apartment is only about 700-750 sq ft and it's low-income housing. Sac County bought this complex when it was a slum and renovated it top to bottom, including installing very efficient, long-range cost effective water heaters and air conditioning units. Also, something like 30% of everyone's total electricity usage is included in the rent, so basically we help pay a portion of each other's electricity but it only adds around $8 to $10/mo to the rent, and rent is pretty cheap so it's no big deal. The total average of my gas and electric bills is around $40/mo.
 
Murrmurr said:
My apartment is only about 700-750 sq ft and it's low-income housing. Sac County bought this complex when it was a slum and renovated it top to bottom, including installing very efficient, long-range cost effective water heaters and air conditioning units. Also, something like 30% of everyone's total electricity usage is included in the rent, so basically we help pay a portion of each other's electricity but it only adds around $8 to $10/mo to the rent, and rent is pretty cheap so it's no big deal. The total average of my gas and electric bills is around $40/mo.
Click to expand...
Great! My place is similar in the footage and it's low income housing for me. Good price on your utilities!
 
Heating oil - in 2020 I paid out $2484 (averages $207 a month) and I keep my thermostat at 65F (18C). Before I got the new boiler furnace my heating oil bill was between $6 and $7K a year (£1837). But considering my old house is like Swiss cheese, probably commensurate with drafty windows and doors.
 
Last edited:
We have a natural gas furnace and a 5-bedroom 2-story house. Our natural gas bill is around $80 a month in winter and $30 in summer. I have a gas stove and gas water heater. Since the Houston climate is mild, we don't have many freezing days so heat is pretty reasonable. (Air conditioning in summer is quite another story.)
 
This past month my gas bill was 100.00 including the online service charge. I guess I should be glad I had the money to pay it but sheesh! I only live in a 1 bedroom apt.
 
and online bill pay fee after that past winter deep freeze mine was surprisingly only $65.

edit: not sure why i mentioned the security light. lol! blaming it on the pain meds.
 
Last edited:
There's no mains gas here and LPG (propane) is more expensive. Like most people here, we use oil (kerosene) for heating.
I live in an old 3 bedroom house (almost 200 years old) so it's not as well insulated as modern houses, but it's much more solid that the modern matchstick & cardboard houses they build these days.

Electricity costs £58 a month and oil averages another £50 a month. Oil price varies wildly. In US$ that's about $140 a month.
 
My utilities this winter (poorly insulated brick, 3 bedroom ranch, built in the 1960s @~6,000 ft altitude) have been running about $80/mo for gas and $45 for electric.
This summer the natural gas will drop to around $14/mo and the electric may go as high as $49/mo.
Propane here is running around $19 to fill a 20 lb. barbecue tank... went up since the Texas disaster.

Enjoy!
 
Happy Joe said:
My utilities this winter (poorly insulated brick, 3 bedroom ranch, built in the 1960s @~6,000 ft altitude) have been running about $80/mo for gas and $45 for electric.
This summer the natural gas will drop to around $14/mo and the electric may go as high as $49/mo.
Propane here is running around $19 to fill a 20 lb. barbecue tank... went up since the Texas disaster.

Enjoy!
Click to expand...
That's much better for heating than I pay with a 1 b apt. Of course I may have had the heat up higher than you, I don't know.
 
Only electric in my apartment, no gas... I got my March bill, and it's $58.50.
This is the period covering the hard freeze and black-out in Texas.

High electric bills, with A/C running, start coming in July and August around these parts. Those get well over $100 a month.
 

You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top