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Status_Silver_5114 t1_j3gnu3e wrote

Reply to comment by J4QQ in Does anyone else find RI gas bills to be wildly expensive? I'm a single person heating 1000 Sq ft to 62 degrees max at all times. In a well insulated house. by ironicmatchingpants

We're more dependent on NG than some states but any state (or country) that uses a large amount of NG is feeling it. You're being myopic. I'm not pretending it's not happening I'm just tired of the "everything sucks here because of x reason and everyone's going to move" thing that Rhode Islanders tend to drag out about literally anything here that isn't based in fact. Does it suck? Yes. Does it only suck for energy in Rhode Island? No. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/28/climate/how-electricity-generation-changed-in-your-state-election.html

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J4QQ t1_j3gmqw2 wrote

Reply to comment by Status_Silver_5114 in Does anyone else find RI gas bills to be wildly expensive? I'm a single person heating 1000 Sq ft to 62 degrees max at all times. In a well insulated house. by ironicmatchingpants

I'm sorry, but heating prices are not nearly this bad in many other places. Rhode Islanders are getting royally screwed here, and there's no sense in pretending it's not happening. People should be outraged.

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Hey_Alyyyyy t1_j3fzd60 wrote

Reply to Does anyone else find RI gas bills to be wildly expensive? I'm a single person heating 1000 Sq ft to 62 degrees max at all times. In a well insulated house. by ironicmatchingpants

Hello. Family of 3 here. Gas heat and gas hot water. I have 960sf ranch with a conditioned basement- so essentially I'm heating/cooling a 1920sf space. Insulation and air sealing was done in all my exterior walls, attic, and basement sills by RISE Engineering in 2021. The work is incentived by RIE so I only paid a portion of the total project cost.

My most recent electric bill came in at 89 and gas bill 139. I keep my tstat usually at 69/70.

My hvac system was recently upgraded to a high efficiency system. The HVAC guy told me changing your tstat temp is a waste of energy- just keep it at a constant temp between 68-70. Hope this helps.

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Trapezuntine t1_j3fv2wh wrote

Reply to comment by Spaday20 in Does anyone else find RI gas bills to be wildly expensive? I'm a single person heating 1000 Sq ft to 62 degrees max at all times. In a well insulated house. by ironicmatchingpants

Delivery. Utility companies make money off the delivery and sell you the gas at cost. Something might have happened February last year that caused non-Russian heating gas to up but I can't put my finger on it.

Also I'm $70 for 1100 so you might want to check your insulation

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JackNapier85 t1_j3fp8rz wrote

Reply to comment by TimeSlipperWHOOPS in Best Locally Made Cookies by radioflea

They were really good when they first opened but it's gone down in quality a lot over the last year. They've become extremely doughy in the middle to the point that I can't even eat half of one without feeling gross for eating very mushy doughy cookie. Service has been pretty bad too ever since they opened up the new store. Wife went into the OG location looking for the new December flavors. Girl behind the counter had no idea about the Gingerbread or Hot Cocoa. Wife asked if the new location had them and she just said I don't know and didn't offer to call the new store. Legit didn't say anything else to my wife, looked at her and my wife just said ok and walked out.

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Parking_Brilliant842 t1_j3feluc wrote

Reply to Does anyone else find RI gas bills to be wildly expensive? I'm a single person heating 1000 Sq ft to 62 degrees max at all times. In a well insulated house. by ironicmatchingpants

AND YET THERE IS STILL A GIANT PUSH TO GET EVERYONE ON ELECTRIC HEAT PUMPS, CANT WAIT TO SEE WHAT THEY CHARGE THEN WHEN EVERYONE IS ON IT AND THEY HAVE TO UPDATE BASICALLY THE ENTIRE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM.🤷🏻‍♂️ HEADED RIGHT BACK TO A MONOPOLY ON THE ENERGY SUPPLY TO RI

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