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and this TRILLION gallons of oil is under which American soil again Fromz...glad to see you're still preaching here...

warmly,

Kenny

Sorry, for some reason I didn't get an alert on this.

I'm knocking on wood so I don't jinx us, we're one of the few places that the electrical costs haven't jumped up (yet). So with the rising cost of propane, we would be better off with the electric. But that's just us, in our area, with our electric company..... so far.

When we moved out here, propane was 78 cents a gallon. The house was equipped with electrical appliances (why, I have no clue) so we got to see the damage on the electric bill during the first few months before we got everything converted over to propane. The previous owners only used propane for the furnace, we switched over the hot water heater and the stove. My electric bills haven't gone up that much, if at all. We were paying around $100 a month when we moved in (13 years ago) and we're paying about $170 a month now. (If my electric bill goes up, I'm blaming you for mentioning it! lol)

It's been over a year since we checked into it, so I don't remember how big the panels were. We were figuring it with a charge back to the electric company so that the excess we had in the summer compensated for the short falls in the winter.

And the funny thing about it? Our electric company is odd. We lose power in the summer more often than we do in the winter, so it would cut down on the number of times a year we have a black out.

We've had extremely mild winters for about 10 years now, so we have few outages due to snow on the lines or sliding into powerline poles. Ours are usually raccoons in the substation or lightening strikes.

UH, the satellite and the alarm clock stay on. The satellite has to in order to record my TiVo! lol Hubby has an electric clock, but I have a wind up.

Yep, logic and intelligent decision making. I'm all for them.