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not sure if my bills are too low or yours are too high. i live in a large flat in London with my partner. fully electric, no gas, but the building was awarded
by kmlx 4y ago
not sure if my bills are too low or yours are too high.
i live in a large flat in London with my partner. fully electric, no gas, but the building was awarded for being ultra efficient.
i used to pay £60/month for the electricity in summer and £100/month in winter. now it’s £80 during summer. winter heating involves shorts and tshirt. usual amenities: large oled, dishwasher every day, washing machine every other day etc etc
> There is no alternative anyway - Russia is a fascist totalitarian state that declared war against Europe and is using gas a weapon.
sure, but inflation reached historical highs before the war even started:
https://www.ft.com/content/088d3368-bb8b-4ff3-9df7-a7680d4d81b2 https://www.ft.com/content/088d3368-bb8b-4ff3-9df7-a7680d4d8...
luckily for the today’s politicians, Russia invaded Ukraine, so now they can point to Putin instead of analysing what they did wrong (spoiler: we actually know what they did wrong).
- nisa 4y agoTook the wrong number it's more like 700€/year. And we heated quite a bit in 2021 due to homeoffice and other causes. Sorry for the mishap.
- TuringNYC 4y agoI've found a lot of bills are driven by how well insulated apartments are. Some leak heat left and right. Another factor is how many open surface areas they have and the size of windows. I had an apartment that I rarely heated in the winter because it was wrapped on 5 of 6 sides by other apartments and the only exposed surface was a wall. Other apartments had multiple outside-facing walls/roofs.
- Scarblac 4y agoRemember that Russia started delivering less gas than contracted last autumn. That was the moment from which energy prices started to spike. In hindsight it was an obvious preparation for the war, making sure that Europe had lower gas reserves so that installing sanctions on Russia would hurt more.