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Originally Posted by dissentowner
I am in SW Ontario and my hydro bill is well over 400.00 a month, that is turning the air on only during non peak hours, only doing laundry on non peak hours, same with dishwasher. I have one 55 inch LED tv that is rarely on. I have a friend who is a janitor and lives in a one bedroom apartment who runs no air, a ceiling fan, watches some tv on his weekends off but other than that always makes sure his lights are off and he still pays 160.00 a month in Hydro. It is beyond ridiculous and I can see how very low income families are having to choose between hydro and food.
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If your friend is paying $160 dollars for that, he either has the world's most wasteful appliances or he's getting wildly screwed over somehow.
I have a one bedroom apartment that is pretty big, with a dishwasher, in unit laundry, terrible old appliances and electric heating (which is a terrible waste of money compared to gas) and I don't ever crack $100.
EDIT: Reading that article it does seem that if you live in rural areas you do pay more for delivery which could cause the higher bills, but pretty rare you'd have an apartment unit in a rural area.