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Not much need for fuel oil here in S. Florida. We pay .14 per kilowatt hour of electricity. The US average is about .13 and a half. Just paid our March bill and it was $121.00.
It’s double that in the summer months.

The bill that has gone nuts is water. My monthly bill was never over $65 5 years ago. It’s near $200 now.

Wow! That is a staggering price for water. For once I don’t feel envious of US prices.

Gas is $1.82 CAD/litre in here in eastern Canada…thanks Trump, you dick. Heat with electricity, was a cold winter, still below freezing at night so my electric bill will not be pretty.

Very few of us in Sarasota County use heating oil, but it can be had for about £0.75/litre.

As for our water bill, we pay absolutely no attention to conservation and I’m sure some environazis would want us taken out and shot for our horrible Gaia-murdering habits. That said, our monthly bill runs around $100±$10. We ain’t worried about it, although I might start getting a bit peeved at $200.

I’ll bet it’s mostly taxes.
I don’t think you can sell a home with and oil furnace here on the States anymore.
If you’re at all handy, you could modify your burner to use fryer grease and used motor oil.

My water bill in South Gloucestershire is £40 ($54) a month. Electricity £82 ($110) a month.

Full disclosure: the months it gets close to $200 are the ones we need to irrigate. The dry season here in FL is the winter months. We’ve just started into our ‘monsoon’ season so the sprinklers go on hiatus as does the bill…

In east central Florida on Saturday night, 25 April, the low is forecast for 66 degF, while Sunday high is forecast 87 degF.

It’s the time of the year when we have wild 50 degree temperature swings, but I have custody of the thermostat and adjust accordingly. Our house came with a monster heat pump system that I had doubts about, but it has been a champ. It’s all-electric here and our bill averages $135 a month. We have our own water well, but no way to meter the usage separately.

In other news, we’ve had .40 inches of rain for the whole year. We are all on edge with high winds and low humidity, and daily wildfires somewhere in the panhandle.

The rate for my Electricity in England is double yours at £0.2045 ($0.276) per kWh.

Out of interest, what are your property taxes? My house is valued at about £450,000 and I pay £3,200 ($4,320) a year Council Tax (equivalent to U.S. Property Tax).

King Charles pays £3,873 (£5,228)for the part of Windsor Castle that he occupies.

@Carl

I pay 4.5 mills or $4.50 per $1000.00 in taxable value. I’m not a math guy but I divided your tax bill by your homes value and came up with 7.1 mills. I also have something called non ad valorem taxes (they cover certain public utilities, fire rescue, solid waste, and storm water services, etc) that adds another .8 mills.
We’re pretty close but you got crushed with your VAT! My local sales tax is 6.5%

We don’t use heating oil (Philippines, so tropical), but petrol and diesel have doubled since the start of the festivities. From p48 per litre of diesel, to p107 per litre – about $6.80 per gallon. It was up to p140 per litre at one point.

Heating oil (virtually all homes up here use it, there’s virtually no natural gas in the Interior) runs between 4.95 & 5.50 USD/gal if you haul it yourself. Add another 75 cents a gallon to have it delivered. My electric, also mostly oil fired, runs around $180 a month; it’s dark 20+ hours a day from Nov thru Feb. My heat is mostly the woodstove even when the county decides you can’t burn because some epa weenie thinks the air quality isn’t perfect. That happens a lot between -20 & +20F which is where the temps sit for most of the year. The county can kiss my shiny metal butt.

@p2

Where do live my good man, above the Arctic Circle?

Damn near. Just outside Fairbanks, AK. 160 or so miles south of the circle.

Swease, After my short interaction with p2 and discovering he lives closer to Santa than I ever will. Wouldn’t it be fun for you and your new obsession with AI to create an interactive map where we can all drop a push pin on the globe to share where we all lurk from? More than once I have wondered where all your imaginary friends hail from. As most of us share a similar world view, I would relish knowing how far that point-of-view is spread. But only if it doesn’t interfere with feeding the chickens….