[SR2Z]

I don't think you get there without an AC, but the point is that many people have AC and central air and use both of them.

My guess is that most people don't have AC or are sensitive to price increases and choose not to run it. There's also multiple electricity providers in the state; NorCal uses PG&E and SoCal uses Edison.

For a variety of complicated and corruption-related reasons, PG&E has jacked rates through the roof in an absolutely unconscionable way and Edison's rates have only increased by a lot.

[taeric]

So it sounds like we mostly agree? One of the starter posts was claiming 450 without AC. I'm curious how that happens. Even with AC, I was never seeing bills that big unless we were running it a lot.