Stolen elections have dire consequences.
Poverty…immorality…
I live in FL and have Duke Energy. I rarely see a bill higher than $80.00. Good luck because I’ve used TECO in the past and they are crazy to deal with.
It is a 20% increase with the inforamtion given.
My ex mother in law used to write 3 page letters to IRS. IT was good therapy but changed nothing.
I bet it is “fuel recovery cost,” making the bill increase.
This brings to mind when I lived in Charlotte and we were in a severe drought. One nearby county said they had about 60 days of water - this county had a population where 30% were illegals.
Stealing from Americans every single way they can.
We are a two person (in our 70s) household in Tennessee. Our last utility bill was $267.00. Full disclosure, that is for electric, gas, and water. Hurts nonetheless. I feel your pain.
You are tilting against windmills.
Pun intended
Useless post. Can’t even bother to say whether rate or consumption or both increased. Numerically challenged rants reveal nothing. Waste of readers’ time.
My bill here in San Diego had doubled with no real explanation. SDG&E went to a complicated billing system with usage tiers.
I agree with everything you said, but will over this in addition, everyone is paying more sometimes a lot more for electricity.
A lot of utility companies have gone “Woke”, with their renewable initiatives. FP&L for example has made huge investments in Solar, in the end that cost more sometimes a lot more.
A lot of coal fired plants have either been shut down on converted natural gas in cases due to political pressure.
The cost of natural gas has skyrocketed, the price of gas goes up, so does the price you pay for electricity.
Look around the world, when the price of basic essentials reaches the point where the average person can’t survive, wars have started, governments have been overthrown, etc..
No country in the history of the world has accumulated more debt than the USA, when the Dollar loses the status of being the World’s Reserve Currency, the USA will be faced with what has happened around the world.
Regardless of what you think about Ukraine, the economic war we are waging against Russia will hasten the move to an alternative reserve currency, probably the Yuan.
Your bill should show a bar graph for the year. Look to see when increasing started. If the increase has increased, has someone tapped your libe or meter? Your meter may need replacement?
I also live in Hillsborough and use TECO. $200 for a 1500’ house is way too much! I have 2000’ residence and my current bill is $71.96. I use LED lights and a water heater timer. Didn’t use heat or A/C much in February.
Something is wrong at your place. Water heater thermostat broken? Short somewhere?
Call TECO and tell them. They can check your billing, rate and usage and see if it’s accurate. Also try calling calling around to electricians see if they have any ideas or can troubleshoot.
We received a notice not too long ago in Southern California from the water company that we were “using more water than our neighbors.”
Turns out everyone in the neighborhood got the same notice.
My elderly neighbors were hopping mad - they visit their grandkids from Friday-Monday and aren’t even home, take showers at the senior center gym and have replaced their lawns with desert scaping.
We’ve also ripped out our lawns, use energy efficient appliances, keep the a/c at 78 degrees - and still our bills are soaring and we are being threatened with “Tier II” prices.
This - as large condo and apartment complexes are going up at the edges of town - guess they don’t need to tap into the limited water supply.
I would love to have an electric bill that low. Mine runs between $300 and $350 a month except for in the months of May and September when neither heat nor ac is used. Then, it might run a low as $250.
1. Global Warming
2. Trump/Russians
3. Governor D.
4. Covid
5. Supply chain shortages
Did I miss anything?
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My electric bill in Las Vegas can reach $200 at the peak of summer when the AC is on 24-7. In the winter it’s only about $50. I could pay a constant rate over the whole year but don’t trust them to get it right.
“ our bill under TECO’s “averaging” program”
If you could opt out of bill averaging, do it. That is a big scam. I ran the numbers when Duke suggested averaging. Our bill would have gone up 30-40 month. I no longer live in Florida, btw.
Under teco here too. Pasco county.
Saw the DPUC approve teco’s deceptive increase package in 2021.
The monthly fee went from some $15.05 a month to $0.70 a day. Doing the math that’s 40%. But allowed to be presented to the rate payers in the month to day comparison.
Crooks getting rubber stamp approvals in every aspect.
Now they are going after those who invested in solar. Teco and all utilities trying to pull back on decade long commitments. Utilities want to pro-rate daytime energy you push back into grid and use later that night.