gas bill

[leafspice.livejournal.com]

Hey all --

Did everyone else's gas heating bill absolutely jump this month, as compared to previous months? I completely understand that it's much colder than previous months, and that gas is not exactly cheap these days, but we saw a jump from $150 last month to $250 the month ending Dec. 31! We have your typical two-bedroom Davis Sq. apartment, about 800 square feet. My parents have a 2600 s.f. place and it only cost them $150 this month! (Now, granted, they do have electric heat, but still...) We always keep our place at 60 degrees, do not cook very often, and were even gone for the holidays for the last 10 days of the month, so our place was at like 57 degrees for that period of time.

I just want to see if anyone else has seen comparable atrocious bills before I freak out any further. I lived in a different Davis apartment last year that was bigger than this one is, and we never saw such a high bill. I'm not sure if I should call NSTAR to see if we have a leak (we already have had one this year) or call the landlord to have him try to weatherproof it better. Argh!

Thanks for your input!

Comments

[dreamgirly19.livejournal.com]

we havent gotten our bill yet from Nstra which is weird. We keep our house at 70 when home and 64 when not home.

[denonymous.livejournal.com]

Let's hear it for 70°. The above comments about 52° made me cold just reading them. We are, however, now on the "turn it the hell down when at work all day" plan, though.