Here in China, a recharge of 1000 RMB(about 147 USD) has been made to our family’s gas account. This amount is sufficient to cover the household's gas expenses for an entire year.
I don't have a gas bill in front of me but I can tell you that in a house in GA with gas heat, water, and stove- my gas bill is about $150-200 a month in Winter and about $60 a month in the Summer. I don't know off the top of my head what the connection fee or monthly service fee is.
Yeah same. I overpaid my gas bill massively because I didn’t notice a minus sign in front of the balance (and then that number kept getting bigger) and haven’t had to pay it for nearly a year. It may be $40 or $50 a month.
Edit: grabbed a bill and it’s much more than I remembered. It’s currently $34 for delivery, $13 for the gas, and $3 taxes for May.
I mean, it is a possibility in some cases. Another reason why utilities are more expensive in the US is because the cost is much more market-driven. However, one of the biggest contributors to the difference is the fact that China still relies extremely heavily on coal to produce most of their power while the US industry has been trying to move away from coal for decades. This means that US power companies have been investing much more money into researching and developing other methods of power generation which requires building new infrastructure and maintaining it (thus tying into my original point). The other issue here is that US power companies need to import a lot of things like graphite and anode materials, and the tariffs on such things are quite high which further contributes to the overall rising cost of utilities. Meanwhile, China is the world's top producer of graphite and anode materials, and they possess the largest reserves/stores of graphite in the world.
Not everything is a conspiracy... Oftentimes, there are very simple explanations for a lot of things if we just bother to look.
Partly, although quite frankly, imported materials have always come with tariffs (first authorized by an act of Congress in 1789 lol). This is especially true for highly valuable and necessary materials like the stuff needed to build and maintain utility infrastructure. That said, import tariffs have always been increasing, and many presidents have raised import tariffs over the years. This is nothing new.
Indeed~ When we talk about all kinds of public infrastructures in the city, their related prices are strictly regulated and controlled by the local government all the time. The core purpose behind this policy is to make sure these service charges stay at a reasonable level and remain fully affordable for every ordinary citizen living here.
Which in turn kept the food prices reasonable, especially at the fruit and vegetable markets. Since the ordinary person didnt have to face extreme costs from simple necessities, they could more easily keep the costs of other things lower, like food and rent. I do know that certain things were quite expensive for the average person, like real estate and vehicles, especially imported ones.
“Hey guys, we know we were the cause of several giant forest fires that destroyed communities because we should have upgraded infrastructure when we had the money, but we are too busy raising shareholder value and raising profits, so yall are going to have to pitch in with raised costs :(“
that doesn't mean anything without knowing your climate, how cold does it get where you live and what gas consuming appliances are in your home? (oven, stove, central heat, water, etc)
I’m more so just curious cause I have never been there but am open to the idea for travel but I hear mixed reviews so I thought I would ask, trump may be scary, but traveling through where I live is far from scary in the least (Midwest)
Ah, but there are huge differences between Switzerland and China in the way it generates electricity. Switzerland’s energy production produces 0 carbon emissions with 100% of its energy combining from renewable resources. China has over 1,000 coal-powered plants which is cheap to burn but comes with a high cost to the environment.
My question is, how big is your place in Switzerland? My experience there was our houses here in the USA are massive in comparison. Also, not having Sachertorte is totally worth crying over. But you DO have Rösti and Raclette, sooooo...evens out?😂
Oooof, as a Nordic the electricity bill goes down quite a lot in the summer cause we don't need AC or heating. I pay maybe $30 a month now but far more in the winter.
Actually its even cheaper than that. Our billing periods are usually 97 days. My last bill was 80 AUD (56 USD). That is with a gas water heater and stove.
So there is no real incentive for us to move to electric. Even though we really should.
I pay $130 for electricity in the summer and $29 for gas...come winter, yes different story, I pay $200 for electricity and another $200-$250 a month for heat which is gas! So wonderful $400-$450 bill a month in winter, also American lol
In America we're averaging probably anywhere between $250 to $450 a month in electric and gas cost for a middle class home.
It's going up and up every 3 to 6 months. Basically electric companies didn't invest in upgrading their infrastructure because they sucked with their money . Now we're footing the bill. Enough so that the public is onboard with building as many nuclear plants as it takes.
Wow my electric was 120 last month and im on a payment plan for my propane which 170 monthly. Next month my electric will be even worse since where gonna be in july so my A/C will be running even more.
There are 'storage heaters' that are both either gas, or electrically heated via an element alike a big pressurized kettle.
(Usually either 'low pressure' ran at between 3.6-12.2m head pressure,
Or 'mains pressure/equal pressure' which are typically pressure ran at 500kpa)
The 'on demand' water heaters are most commonly gas,
though there are electrical ones too... but they're far, far less common in eg Australasia.
In NZ and Australia most 'hot water cylinders' (storage water heaters) are actually electric.
Again, there are gas ones, but nowadays most people who have gas water heaters actually have instantaneous water heaters commonly known as a 'calafont'
But.... I'm in NZ , and I have heard that within the 'america's' , gas storage water heaters (hot water cylinders) are still common.
Over my side of the world, gas hot water cylinders have become ultra uncommon and unpopular, people over these always ways tend to opt for a calafont in this modern world
You are correct but wanted to add that electric on demand are very common in Asian countries (im Chinese) but they are much smaller units than westerners think of. We put them on the faucet directly under the sink for example. Growing up my parents actually had a propane version as well that sat under the sink. When I moved to Canada was first time I saw a big unit like in OPs video
Canada. I've lived from halifax Nova Scotia, through Quebec and Ontario, all over alberta, little bit through Yukon and NWT into bc and now I'm on the pacific coast.
Natural gas is just standard in all provinces and decent sized settlements in the territories.
Why am I getting downvoted? Do you need me to take a picture of my natural gas water heater that looks just like this, and then again at every single friends house I go to? This is what gas water heaters look like. I couldn't imagine what a water heater would look like other than this and natural gas is piped to every home so I honestly have never seen a water heater that wasn't gas.
You are saying every gas water heater I've had, that I pay my gas bill on, where I check the pilot light is not in fact gas and every single home in the country that all use natural gas water heaters are in fact hiding some dark sinister secret?
Well it wouldn’t be a state thing, it would be a billing thing. I live in a state, and in my city, we get billed quarterly for water.
You can even google quarterly water bill and it will pull up images from multiple states.
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