10 Ways to Save Money on Your Electric Bill

With the present situation I wanted to write something that could help people who are facing rising electric bills. There are many solutions, some like photovoltaic shingles, photocells that cover the roof and give enough electricity to supply power for the house but these solutions cost several tens of thousands of dollars to implement and have payback periods longer than the expected life of the equipment. They aren’t a good idea unless you are like Al Gore and want to make an environmental statement, but then, Al isn’t installing them. I ask, “Why not?” The answer is simple, he doesn’t believe in global warming or conservation, and neither does the Hollywood elite, Barock Hussein Obama, Michelle Obama, Reverend Wright or Nancy Pelosi. They believe they are the elite who can squander while the peasant class suffers.

So I want to provide some help and I will pull from my experience as an evil heartless conservative and see what value I can contribute. My electric bill is going up thirty percent next year because the Pennsylvania legislature checked their brains before voting on a bill some years ago. The legislation, if written properly would have brought competition and permanently lower rates along with an incentive for power companies to go more green. The flawed legislation nearly has eliminated competition, stunted the green efforts and insured a thirty percent increase in electric bills. Don’t blame the power company or the legislature, look in the mirror. I am. If I had read the bill when it passed I would have known then.

The electric companies kept their prices down, taking very small profits, for ten years. They knew they only had to keep that for ten years, then the law let them have carte blanche. The law should have said the price caps would hold till there was thirty five percent of the electricity being generated independently. By then competition would have leveled the market. So my bill is going up. I can’t do much about it because I have already cut almost as much as I can. Understand, I have enjoyed lower bills for forty years because of this action. One of the rules of conservation is, “The guy who conserves early gets the benefit early but can’t do much more when everyone else does.” Right now California has cut about as much as they can. They are in for a rude awakening when more cuts are not possible and the lights go out. But that is another story.