[Ryland]

As I was looking over my first full month's electric bill and heat bill for my new house I had to wonder how it ranks among other people here, granted not everyone else lives in a place that has been -10F for the last week but we all use electricity and I've found that almost all of my friends use more then I do, of course I tend to turn lights off at their house's and tell them how much they could save if they didn't leave a few 60 watt incandescent bulbs on all night as night lights (going to sneak some CF's in soon), I have two meters, one for the lower half of my house where no one is living (duplex style) and one for the upper half, the lower half gets the bill for the electric water heater and natural gas furnace with it's forced air blowers igniter's and all that stuff, the upper half has a fridge, electric stove, chest freezer, electric tea pot, lights, and a radio, all of this is shared by 3 adults, the bill for the lived in space is about what I suspected it would be, 93KWH of electricity coming to $8.52 and after taxes and surcharges it comes to $17.31, the other bill comes to around $50 just to run the water heater and run the furnace.
In the plans are a timer on the hot water heater, a gas range in the kitchen, a more efficient furnace, more LED lights (installed one LED in a floor lamp today) and to replace the rest of the incandescent bulbs with CF's as well.