Campaign Screw You HELCO! now underway!
- Wed May 25 2005
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Yesterday we received our electricity bill from HELCO. At a whopping $225.47 for one month, it was the highest bill we’ve had in four months of living here. Because this is just too outrageous, we at The Hoose have initiated Campaign Screw You HELCO! (yes, just like Yahoo! the exclamation mark is key). Our goal is to get our electricity usage down from 29.9 kWH/day to 25, giving us a bill of somewhere around $180.
Sure, there are four of us living here, but we shouldn’t really be using that much electricity. Our fridge, washing machine and stove are all fairly new, and we have clotheslines that we hang our laundry out on fairly often. We don’t have much that’ll suck up electricity other than our (mine and Alice’s) computer and the hot water heater.
Thus, our first target was our hot water heater. We opened it up last night and found two dials, the top one turned to the off position and the bottom one turned to 160. I emailed my dad about this and he said 160 is, and I quote, “far too hot and dangerous.”
The opening salvo in Campaign Screw You HELCO! is thus turning down the hot water tank to 120. Take that!
To be fair, I guess the opening salvo actually came on Thursday when the power supply in our computer died, negating that electricity drain, but that wasn’t something that we consciously did. Turning down a dial feels so much more like an action of aggression than watching your computer shut off spontaneously. Screw You HELCO!
