#but no you guys it's tooooootally a waaaaay more efficient energy source for heating!!! so much cheaper!!! please believe me!!!

[cesium-sheep]

trying to work out the funny math on the gas bill is always interesting. last month it was $43, this month it’s $2, but we only used like 20% less and the (commodity) price per unit is nearly doubled. but there’s some kind of “climate credit”, which is apparently a twice-yearly discount for electricity (and once yearly for gas) paid out by the state. which seems weird and frankly unhelpful and why aren’t you 1 spreading that out over more of the year or 2 simply running it yourself or 3 regulating price fluctuations.

and even then the cost for the bill is like, there’s a charge per day of being connected to the system at all even if there’s zero usage on a given day, then a charge per unit for “transportation”, then an additional charge per unit for “commodity”, then two different state fees per unit (regulatory fee and public purpose surcharge)

california is a nightmare state and natural gas is a shit utility