The heating method used in Zhao Meng's house is electric heating, that is, central air conditioning.
This heating method is very common in urban suburbs and towns in northern America, especially in places where natural gas pipelines are not yet connected, where almost all electric heating methods are used.
There is no way. Due to environmental issues, the United States eliminated small coal-fired boilers as early as the 1960s and 1970s. In cities, because there are natural gas pipelines and convenient gas supply, residents in cities mostly use natural gas or gas to boil water for heating.
In cities in the north of the United States, most residential buildings have access to natural gas pipelines, so they can directly use natural gas to heat water. In areas without natural gas pipelines, there is usually a large gas tank behind the residential building, which is specially used to store gas. A full tank of gas can heat the house for four months. Of course, the price of filling this tank of gas is not cheap, about $800...
Like the "rural" farm house that Zhao Meng bought, there is neither natural gas nor coal gas. Gas is used for cooking, so the heating here uses central air conditioning.
However, electricity is much more expensive than coal or natural gas.
Many Chinese people may think that electricity is cheap in the United States, but it is not cheap at all.
Compared with electricity prices in China, electricity prices in the United States are several times more expensive.
People who don't know the situation only know that the average electricity cost in the United States is less than 12 cents, which is about 80 cents per kilowatt-hour in national currency. This price is not expensive. But in fact, there are many tricks in the electricity cost in the United States.
First of all, in addition to the price of your daily electricity bill, you also need to pay a fixed monthly fee, just like the landline fee we used to pay at home. This price is fixed at $16.8 per month in the United States. Secondly, in the United States, you also need to pay a pipeline fee, that is, a power grid fee. This price is not fixed, but calculated based on your electricity consumption. On average, you need to pay 11.15 cents per kilowatt-hour. In addition, there are some taxes and miscellaneous fees.
The electricity prices in different states are not uniform. For example, Hawaii has the highest electricity prices in the United States, with the price per kilowatt-hour being as high as 30.33 cents, and Alaska has 31.42 cents.
As for Montana where Yang Jing is located, the electricity cost per kilowatt-hour is 10.93 cents, ranking 12th from the bottom in the United States, which is considered relatively cheap.
But even so, after adding in fixed monthly fees, plumbing fees, and other taxes and miscellaneous fees, the cost of electricity per kilowatt-hour in Montana is close to 25 cents!
The electricity consumption of Americans is almost the highest in the world. According to data surveys, the average monthly household electricity consumption in the United States is 897 kWh, which is nearly 900 kWh per month. This number is very scary. How much is the average monthly household electricity consumption in China? It is less than one tenth of this number...
Of course, the fact that Americans use so much electricity is also directly related to their living habits.
As we all know, Americans are the most wasteful people in the world. They waste everything.
Americans usually buy shirts in dozens. When a shirt gets dirty after a few days of wearing, they don't wash it at all. Instead, they buy a new one and throw the old dirty shirt away. In China, people wear a shirt for ten years...
American families change their curtains twice a year, but in China, curtains can last for 20 years...
There are countless other similar problems in the United States.
This is actually an extremely wasteful behavior, but it is commonplace in the United States.
The same is true for electricity. In our country, if we use central air conditioning for heating, except for those families with particularly good conditions, they will turn on the air conditioner 24 hours a day, while ordinary people basically turn it off when they go out and turn it on again when they come back.
In the winter in the United States, central air conditioning is basically turned on 24 hours a day. At most, the temperature will be slightly lowered to 18 degrees when the owner goes out, but the air conditioner will never be turned off.
Therefore, for American families who use electric heating, using 2,000 kWh of electricity per month in winter is like a piece of cake.
Just like Zhao Meng's house, usually no one lives there, except the Jones brothers who come here twice a week and stay for two nights. But even so, the air conditioner is on 24 hours a day.
Even though Yang Jing claimed to be rich, he couldn't help but twitch his eyes after learning about this situation.
This is not a question of money, but an attitude and lifestyle that completely ignores waste, which is simply horrible.
However, such waste is not without benefits. At least Yang Jing felt warm immediately after entering the house. You have to know that such a large house has two floors. If you turn on the air conditioner after entering the house, it will take at least an hour to raise the temperature.
You know, the temperature outside has dropped to minus four or five degrees Celsius, and with the strong north wind, the temperature is still dropping rapidly.
The warm room made the three of them take off their coats, and the Jones brothers did not refuse Yang Jing's invitation. They were both cheerful by nature and loved making friends, so they readily agreed to Yang Jing's invitation.
Of course, the two brothers did not eat for free. While Yang Jing was busy cooking, his younger brother Michael drove out again and came back with two bottles of red wine.
Just as Michael came back, snowflakes began to fall from the sky.
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