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Originally Posted by JSH
3 cents a kWh equals "exploding electricity costs? That increase would cost me about $3.50 a week even an almost all-electric house and an EV.
Are we not supposed to clean up the grid to avoid such tiny cost increases?
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Save the gaslighting. That's about a 25% increase in 6 years that's kind of huge. Scale that up its doubling the price every 24 years. Yes something going up at more than 10x the rate of normal inflation is exploding the price. That begs the questions:
Where does it end?
What happened to renewables being cheaper?
Why are you defending the clearly indefensible?
There's also increased service fees, I have read that people in Californiastan complain their bill is up 50% to 100% from 2011. Increased rates always come with increased fees as people struggle to use less and replace used up appliances with new more efficient ones. The power company makes up the difference.
According to the IEA the average family households uses around 900kwh per month and that "3 cent difference" is nearly $30 difference on the average families bill. Good for you if that would only increase your bill $3 a month, no one cares. You're clearly not representative of everyone else.
Plus you're lieing if you say your bill will only increase $3 even with an electric vehicle. That means you are only driving hundreds or a hundred miles per month which is not normal or relateable at all to everyone else, or using a free charger. If a normal person drives 1,000 miles per month, uses 250kwh that would be a bill increase of $7.50 a month just for the electric vehicle alone.
Then if you're only driving 100 miles per month that's a waste of an electric vehicle. That battery is still degrading over time, maybe at half the rate compared like someone like me who drives their EV 1,600 miles per month.