100% the circle of 5ths! Fat Cat Goes Down Alley Eating Bread! Or at least that’s how I learned it in piano lessons!

Soooo…what were they paying for electric, plus gas, plus propane before?

Ah sorry I should clarify, I know what’s depicted! I was more curious if anyone knows who the original seller is

kWh went from $0.11 to $0.22. I locked in at $0.16 a kWh.

Is this the circle of 5ths? Seems to be in the order as the photo in this link https://musiccrashcourses.com/lessons/key_relationships.html

Whatever it is it’s beautiful.

I moved out of NH (Somersworth) this last October for this very reason-the price of electricity. It was unsustainable to pay that much for one person who worked and was gone 12/13 hours every day.. I had a 3 room apt. A bedroom a living room and a kitchen. 380 Last winter for electric never mind I kept my thermostat at 60 because I was on the very top floor and got residual heat from the lower floors and got a Ton of sunshine. I had no space heaters or blow dryer or even an electric coffee pot. I was a miser when it came to electricity to no avail. In September of 2022 (my last month) I paid 290 for this same place. No air-conditioning or anything. Even had an "energy audit" from Eversource. "NOPE Nothing to see here this is legit" Live Free or Die. Smh. Good luck with this.

Bro what are you talking about. The boomers made restaurants stay open during the worst of the pandemic and didn’t leave tips when their food was delayed. They couldn’t make it for two weeks without sit down dining.

Aren't they out of order?

Also have ave one car that's broken half the time, nothing for entertainment but a radio, and go to a restaurant once a year as your big family outing.

Piano, notes of the scale, abcdefg. Beautiful.

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Yet you ignore the fact that the energy companies, especially oil, raked in record profits last year. They just used Ukraine as a scapegoat to line their pockets. Unfortunately, this is a direct result of unfettered capitalism. But the people who support those who vote to keep capitalism unrestrained, refuse to see that they got what they voted for.

Blame the corporations recording record profits. Then blame those who vote to ensure that corporations can get away with it over and over again. I’ll wait.

Is this person trying to usurp 5nd? The person you're responding to I mean.

Turn off when leaving for work. From off, turn it down to 62 for sleeping. When you wake up, turn up from 62 to 68, then immediately turn it off when you leave for work. Something not adding up there.

Anyways, turning heat down is advisable only for long durations and should never be turned off.

I grew up in a suburb between Punkershire and Balloch, near an Amtrak station and a tiny airport.

A woman is who she says she is.

The rest is none of your business.

this is probably unpopular to say but those folks were up in 40mph wind on Christmas Eve getting my power back online so I could watch family guy reruns and avoid my family, and I'm feeling like most of the value on my power bill is actually in the delivery fees...

I have a propane heater. Otherwise my electricity bill has just shot up to $180. Myself and two adult sons with electric hot water and a pump for our well water. Also we use a lot of lighting at night. Electric heat in New Hampshire is unaffordable. My folks tried it fifty years ago and they couldn't do it then. A wood stove, than a coal stove, and finally a propane heater which I'm still using.

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OP, as others have suggested, electric heat is very expensive to heat with.

When it’s 10 degrees outside, you have have your heat set to 65 degrees, you have a 55 degree differential. Bumping it up to 70 degrees inside and you have a 60 degree differential. The point is that the difference between 65 and 70 set point is not that much different compared to the 10 degrees outside. EPA says generally lowering the thermostat by 1 degree is roughly a 1% savings in electric bill.

EPA advises turning it down 6-8 degrees if you will be gone for more than 8 hours. Turning it completely off and then back on when you get home it would use more energy than just holding 68 degrees.

Schools used different methods of teaching in the 40s, 50s and 60s emphasizing rote over analysis, creativity and discovery. So people didn't necessarily know how to learn new things that they didn't already know, without some kind of training. That changed in subsequent years and you can see that reflected in math textbooks among other things. This was mirrored in Asia where countries came to believe that their rote learning methods was insufficient for a modern world.

I'm a retired software engineer so I basically have a math background; but you generally have to figure out how to do things without help. So you explore, experiment, fail and eventually figure it out. This was the way it was back for us in the 70s and 80s but this became what employers wanted from all of their employees later on. Self-motivated, able to solve problems and find solutions without help or management attention, initiative, etc.

I have taken it as a given for some of the older folks that I know as this is what I have observed. I know retired engineers, doctors and others and they generally don't have a problem learning or even inventing new things. But I don't think that they are the majority.

That is an awesome pic

Cool