Electric Bill
This past July, I began my lease for the school year on a new apartment. One of the disadvantages of starting a lease in July is that my roommates and myself had to pay rent for our apartment, even though it wasn’t being used. But theres nothing we could really do about this. Anyways since the place wasn’t being used all lights and the air conditioning were turned off. The only thing that had to stay on was the refrigerator, because the landlord specifically stated so. OK, fair enough.
I assumed that it wouldn’t cost much to run the refrigerator for the summer, because a.) it’s a small fridge and b.) unlike other appliances which stay on all the time when in use, a refrigerator consumes most of its energy only when the compressor is running (which is a small amount of the time). Since my postal box was not set up yet, I figured I would just pay any late fees that were occurred on my electric bill when I came back to school.
Now fast forward to a few days ago. Both my two roommates and myself are situated and moved into our apartment. We go down to the postal office, pay our fee to set up the postal box, receive the keys for the box, and head home. My roommate goes to collect the mail and returns inside our place. One of the letters in the pile was addressed to myself and it is from the electric company. I then open the letter and to my appall is a bill for $90 dollars, and this is just for the month of July. The bill stated that nearly 500 kilo-watt-hours were consumed in the month of July. Now I’m thinking to myself, how the hell can this be. The only thing running was the refrigerator. After looking up a few things on the Internet, I concluded that even if the refrigerator ran 24 hours a day (which it doesn’t) for the whole month, the bill would only be about $30 dollars.
Needless to say I made a call to the electric company yesterday, and was disapointed with the responses I recieved. I will keep you all updated on my progress.
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