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What do you pay for electricity per kWh these days?

And then the day comes when we get a bill based on what our "fair share" should be based on our occupants and square footage. Please tell me that will never happen....


It's a few years out but.................................
 
Lux Man said:
And then the day comes when we get a bill based on what our "fair share" should be based on our occupants and square footage. Please tell me that will never happen....


It's a few years out but.................................
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The only way that won't happen is to choose wisely when using the 15th amendment.
 
Lux Man said:
And then the day comes when we get a bill based on what our "fair share" should be based on our occupants and square footage. Please tell me that will never happen....


It's a few years out but.................................
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Fair share will be, is, based on income factored by such things as occupants and square footage. It isn't fair that some have more than others, privileged, so the story goes.
 
billyz said:
Just wait until we start subsidizing the Data centers electric usage. Along with the Water usage.
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This is a real concern that will directly affect our bank accounts. The biggest customers get the biggest discounts. The public is always holding the bag---just remember how the Wall Street Fraud of 2008 was paid for by the public.
 
It sure looks like the United States is getting close now doesn't it? The gap between the ultra-wealthy and the ultra-poor just keeps on growing and it seems like it has been growning exponentially over the past decade. Do we even have a middle class anymore?

One thing's for sure... when AI really starts to hit hard the ultra-wealthy aren't going to be worrying about anything financially.
 
MuchoReverbo said:
It sure looks like the United States is getting close now doesn't it? The gap between the ultra-wealthy and the ultra-poor just keeps on growing and it seems like it has been growning exponentially over the past decade. Do we even have a middle class anymore?
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I remember the exact same thing being said in the early 70's. Here we are some 55 years later and thankfully the middle class is still here. Struggling just like back then but still here.
 
The gap between the wealthy and poor has dramatically increased from the 1970s and continues to grow.

In the 1970s over 60% of Americans were considered "middle class". Today that number is less than 50% and has been decreasing every year.
 
How much do I pay?? Never checked....but it is not terrible. I live in SW Louisiana where summer is April til Dec.....our AC pumps! This year has been a bit hotter than most, so the bill has been up more than usual. Figured it is par for the course.
 
It's weird because I think it has been hotter this year but my electric bill hasn't gone up. For this same period last year my bill went up less than $2.

I don't know why because nothing's changed with my house and if anything I have been home more than I was last year so I would have thought it would have made it higher because of that too. :confused:

$347.48 is high enough for me.
 
MuchoReverbo said:
The gap between the wealthy and poor has dramatically increased from the 1970s and continues to grow.

In the 1970s over 60% of Americans were considered "middle class". Today that number is less than 50% and has been decreasing every year.
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Does that decrease take into account that there's currently 650,000 401k millionaires which is the most ever? There wasn't even a single one in the early 70's. In today's economy I wouldn't consider 1 mil. in a 401k being wealthy but perhaps upper middle class. Not to mention the poorer folks that may only have $500-750K in their accounts probably vastly outnumber those 650,000. That I would consider middle class and there weren't any of those folks back then either.
 
It's gotten a lot worse dude. Look it up. The decline of labor unions. The elimination of manufacturing jobs. The changes in tax laws. All have contributed to the enourmous gap in wealth distribution and it continues to increase every year.

This AI is only going to increase it more as jobs for middle-class earners continue to evaporate and the US becomes even more of a low-income service industry economy.
 
Southern CA Edison has $0.353 /kwh. $0.24 off peak and $ 0.58 peak.
I ended up with solar on roof and SCE pays me an insignificant change.
Hoping the solar is worth it in the end.
 
Hey boss:
AI is working out great; however, no job to go around, people still have to eat. What are you going to do being the one in charge?
You want to go the Rome way with bread and ciccuis?
May be universal income?
Ask AI for answer?
 
MuchoReverbo said:
It's gotten a lot worse dude. Look it up. The decline of labor unions. The elimination of manufacturing jobs. The changes in tax laws. All have contributed to the enourmous gap in wealth distribution and it continues to increase every year.

This AI is only going to increase it more as jobs for middle-class earners continue to evaporate and the US becomes even more of a low-income service industry economy.
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So I take that as a no it does not in answer to my question.
 
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