73 - only because neither of us can figure out how to reset the freakin thing. Touch screen, no buttons, and when we touch it, nothing happens.

Have you tried turning the house off and turning it back on again?

You can **** the **** right the **** off

I forgot about the heater. 65 in winter. 63 at night.

We don't have a kill switch for the house per se. But I haven't been on the roof to look. :D

Holy **** dude! That's insane, even with low humidity here in AZ. No way I'd ever tolerate that.

We run 80 when we are home and 75 at night. I don't think the summer bills are all that bad and I won't set it super high to save $100.

77 most days and 76 most nights. Winter, mid 60's.

AC 69
Heat 69

During the day - 80
5 PM - 8 AM - Varies from 72 to 76

I pay the electricity bill....so I control that shit.

On going battle at our house. I keep it at 78 in the summer, wife bumps it to 75, winter I put it to 70 she bumps it to 74. Since I pay the electric bill, I try to keep it comfortable without breaking my wallet. Looking forward to a cool off so I can shut the thing off and open the windows and save a few bucks.

That said, how many here are on level pay? I pay as we go.

They have a program here in Colorado where the utility company controls your thermostat. In peak times they remotely raise or lower your thermostat. They've offered some incentives to sign up for it, which I read with the same expression I would use if confronted with a pony-sized tarantula.

And no, I don't use level pay, either. Cash on the barrel. You give me amps, I give you dollars. I don't want a deeper relationship than that. That said, my bills sure vary a lot. Since I don't have air conditioning they'll be as low as $70 in the summer, and I always have one winter month these days where it tops $400.

We have that too, haven't signed up for it, I don't want the electric company having control of my thermostat either.

I 'pre-paid' for a bit. Was an eye opening experience for me. I'm away from that now as it was too inconvenient. But I learned a lot about energy consumption and what I could tolerate. Just doing my part man.

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HeHeHe...classic Rainman.

At my rental office space, I use one of those locking plastic thermostat boxes. They can't change the temp. It's filled with 18 women. Level 72 degrees all year long. Like porriage...not to hot, not to cold. There would be riots +50 yr olds with hot flashes vs cold blooded young vixens.

Summer time I get a double whammy, running a pool pump doesn't help. Highest bill so far this year has been about $280 and our house is all electric, so I could deduct what the gas bill would be from that.

As for as pre-pay, for the electric in summer, nope. I control the temp.

For winter thou, level for propane gas. Propane can spike a bunch in a year. I have horror stories when we first bought the place (farmhouse built in 1903). It had no insulation in the walls with moderate insulation in the attic. The upstairs had no heat, only gravity feed (vents/holes in the 2nd story floor where warm air flows up). The windows were original, rattled in the wind with cracks in the panes. Snow would come in during the night and wake up with a nice pile sitting on the floor. I slept in my old army sleeping hat wearing a union suit under thick German feather blankets.

During the winter of '97, the price of propane was $.60/gal in that fall. It spike to $2/gal. The house was a sieve, as mentioned above, we used 500/gal per month for 2-3 months. Do the math! Crazy. $1k/month.

Over the years, replaced all windows, updated the AC/furn, insulated everywhere, re-sided the house etc. And even added on 2k ftsq. After we did all the improvements on the old house, monthly $250 gas. When we added on, with better insulation, maintained around $250.

Thus for gas, we level pay throughout the year. We contract in august for 1,000 gal. This last year was at ?? $1.43/gal. It lasts us all year and no fear of a gas spike.