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02-11-2008, 02:20 PM
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Location: North Florida
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heating alternatives
I am assuming that most people in Rapid City area heat with natural gas or what? I am trying to get an idea of what heating costs would be this time of the year. As an example: If I came to Rapid City area and bought a 2000 sq ft home. What do you think it would cost to heat it? Thanks.
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02-11-2008, 03:51 PM
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Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota
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The Black Hills area is renown for having cheap energy. I'm not so sure anymore, but for while we had the lowest cost for energy in the United States. my home is about 1800-2000 square feet and everything is electric. I pay less than $100 per month. In the summer I get as low as $75.
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02-11-2008, 06:49 PM
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Location: So. Dak.
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Yea, you guys are lucky out there with Black Hills Power. A 2,000 square foot house over here with natural gas would run pretty close to 500 a month since we've had such cold spells.
I think that BHP has gone up a bit. With the national average being at 100%, Rapid City's utilities are 103%. BUT over here ours are 135%.  SO, I'd gestimate that your utilities out there would be about 325 per month. But remember, that would just be for a few months out of the year. You could have about 6 months a year that your bill may be about 100. |
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02-11-2008, 07:57 PM
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Location: Lake Metigoshe, ND
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If your concerned about utilty costs, you might want to consider North Dakota. Yes! Its colder there, but North Central ND is about 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour(if you have a dual heat system, otherwise a couple cents more). Cheaper than Natural gas in most parts of the country. Also, they haven't had a rate increase since 1985. Most people in that part of the state, according to what I've been reading, are total electric! Would never happen here in California. In California we pay about 11.5 cents per kilowatt hour.
Good Luck!
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02-19-2008, 04:23 PM
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Living in Rapid City, having a 1950sq split level... we have gas and electric... the most our electric bill has ever been was $125 in the hottest month with 115 temps....for gas worst month was $132 in 2006.... average about $85 for winter months... you have to remember living in rapid city we have a cold day or 2 then it warms up.... to be honest in the summer months I just pay $50 a month so I aways have a credit balance "just in case" and I don't get any supprises if we do get an extremely cold month or the prices jump sky high!
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02-19-2008, 05:08 PM
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Location: So. Dak.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cpsouthdakota
Living in Rapid City, having a 1950sq split level... we have gas and electric... the most our electric bill has ever been was $125 in the hottest month with 115 temps....for gas worst month was $132 in 2006.... average about $85 for winter months... you have to remember living in rapid city we have a cold day or 2 then it warms up.... to be honest in the summer months I just pay $50 a month so I aways have a credit balance "just in case" and I don't get any supprises if we do get an extremely cold month or the prices jump sky high!
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Yea, speaking of the prices jumping sky high, I understand that an oil refinery exploded in Tx. I don't know any details, but that's not gonna help anyone out. |
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02-19-2008, 06:06 PM
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Location: Spots Wyoming
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Because of the refinery explosion in Texas, oil closed this afternoon at over $100 a barrel.
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02-19-2008, 07:55 PM
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Location: Lake Metigoshe, ND
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ElkHunter
Because of the refinery explosion in Texas, oil closed this afternoon at over $100 a barrel.
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Thats always been a continuing issue in the USA. Since a new oil refinery or nuclear power plant hasn't been built in the last 30 years, everytime there is a refinery plant problem, we always seem to have to pay for it. It seems we haven't had as big of a problem obtaining the crude oil, as we have had the facilities to process it. Here in California, ALL gas that is consumed HAS TO BE REFINED in California. We had a bad refinery fire a couple years ago, and the gas prices sky rocketed because of it. So, its not always the supply, but facalites that can process the crude oil. |
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02-20-2008, 05:49 AM
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Location: Spots Wyoming
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Don't let them fool you. The refinery's up here are operating at below capacity. So if a refinery burns up, the others could, if they wanted, crank up production. But they don't. They've turned gas into a commidity like diamonds. They only let a little out at a time so they can keep the price and demand up.
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