Reply by JJohnston

I just realized I have my electric bill right here at my desk, and Charlie’s reply prompted me to check for myself: I pay 9 cents per KwH for the first 450, then 12 per KwH in excess of that. This is in New Mexico. If you really are paying almost 100 TIMES that much, go gas.

-- The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken