shop electric bills

when i was doing my paper work for 2003 taxes, i noticed how much i had spent on electrical bills. so i went back to 2001 to see what i paid for the year. in 2001 i paid $1150 for the year. in 2003 i paid $2510.
i haven't done anything different, nothing has changed, i do the same thing day in day out. i went back to 1998 and my bills for the year were $1075. nearly every year up to 2002 was right around $1100. then in 2002 it jumped up to $1600. then this year it goes to $2500???? WTF?
i knew everything was going up, but DAMN.
if i did 500 cars a year, i would need to raise the price on each one $3 JUST to cover the EXTRA electricity.

i pay about 225.00a mouth

that's close to what i pay now. back in 99-00, in the winter, i'd get bills for like $60. in the summer i might have a $175 bill. now it's like $350 in the summer, and $200 in the winter. f'n sucks.

I would take your electric if you pay my heat bill for the winter

sure bet. seeing as how it's colder here than where you are. (37 here, 43 there right now)
of course, last week at this time it was 76. gotta love texas weather.

I ment the heat bills when I was in ND. I was paying about 1200-1600/month that was from about oct, nov, dec, jan feb, mar

F-U-C-K T-H-A-T.

after the first year in this shop I did balance billing and paid about 500/month. THAT WAS A KICK IN THE ASS. did not stay in that shop but for 2 years until I found a better one

Yeah, the natural gas prices are nuts. They always come out with these make believe "shortages" and triple the rates. Riiigggghhhttttt, we believe ya.

How much juice do dem porter cables use

that is to f'ing funny..

2800 sqft shop. $40 per month in the summer. $90 in the winter. Shop is always comfortable. Too comfortable at times

1200 square feet shop with no AC and no heating and I use about $60/month on electricity. I did install an AC window unit above my door and during the Summer, the bill goes up to as high as $90.

They bring it in from sooo far out there here in podunk, surprising it costs as little as it does.

Bump diddly bump bump... don't ask...

litespeed seriously ac in frisco! just wear shorts and a t-shirt!

if I was paying that much in electricity I would buy a generator and use it for the heat guns for a month and see what my bill was then! maybe even hook up the lights to it and see if they bill you ! then you can say I havn't even used any electric, sounds like someone is steeling electricity from your shop someone next door has plugged into your wires with out you knowing it! I would check it out!

Sprinter,
Cost of living in the S.F. Bay Area is a rip off. They get you for everything. Nothing is cheap. Fremont and San Leandro gets quite a bit hotter than San Francisco. If you go over the hills, the temperature climbs another 10-15 degrees so we have a very wide range of temps here.
On a typical day in the Bay Area, you can have a temperature of around 55 degrees along the coast. Move into the Bay and it will be about 65-75. Climb over the hills and you will get about 90.

$250 at one, $300 at the other last month. My house last month$500. Two months last winter over $700 per. Natural Gas....... Other homes and units with heat pumps much more reasonable. Sucks!!!

The shop I sold was 5200,ft 190 -200 summer if no ac 350 to 410 in winter,they always add the cost of a storm in there somewhere I think.My current shops are 40by 40 and 46$ in one 78$ in another never run heat or air at night,looking at everybodys thread tts you have a problem

Mine is around 200 a month...

250