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<blockquote data-quote="Mattsmom277" data-source="post: 331381" data-attributes="member: 4264"><p>Our rates change here all the time. I have stopped even looking to compare on the bills anymore. I just cringe any time I notice the increase in charges.</p><p></p><p>Our city recently began installing meters. By next year, once the entire city is switched over, we are going to "time of day" type billing. Meaning if I cook dinner AT dinner time, I'll pay near to 3-4 times more to use my oven than if I cooked after 10-11p.m. Yikes!! So, once that happens, if we do as we normally do: laundry weekdays during the day when I'm home and everyone is out, meals cooked fresh at meal time, kids leaving laptops on while gone to school (and/or tv's, playstations, xboxs, lights, chargers etc) I'll be paying a fortune. Heating during the day is going to be a price killer. The solution we are told? Do laundry over night, cook meals over night for next day etc. I can do the whole crack down on kids and S/O turning off electronics and lights, keeping chargers unplugged and using them overnight to charge things etc. But am I really going to stay up all night to do laundry and cook meals? I have fear of the billing process already and its a year away!</p><p></p><p>Oh, and if anyone stole our source of heat? OMG. Being in the Canadian north, we'd last an hour before our house was a uninsulated igloo!! What is wrong with people???</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mattsmom277, post: 331381, member: 4264"] Our rates change here all the time. I have stopped even looking to compare on the bills anymore. I just cringe any time I notice the increase in charges. Our city recently began installing meters. By next year, once the entire city is switched over, we are going to "time of day" type billing. Meaning if I cook dinner AT dinner time, I'll pay near to 3-4 times more to use my oven than if I cooked after 10-11p.m. Yikes!! So, once that happens, if we do as we normally do: laundry weekdays during the day when I'm home and everyone is out, meals cooked fresh at meal time, kids leaving laptops on while gone to school (and/or tv's, playstations, xboxs, lights, chargers etc) I'll be paying a fortune. Heating during the day is going to be a price killer. The solution we are told? Do laundry over night, cook meals over night for next day etc. I can do the whole crack down on kids and S/O turning off electronics and lights, keeping chargers unplugged and using them overnight to charge things etc. But am I really going to stay up all night to do laundry and cook meals? I have fear of the billing process already and its a year away! Oh, and if anyone stole our source of heat? OMG. Being in the Canadian north, we'd last an hour before our house was a uninsulated igloo!! What is wrong with people??? [/QUOTE]
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