Bear with me a moment, this is more a work in progress than a complete diary.
I stepped into a conversation the other day on a fish forum that has gotten me trying to track down some information. It all started with people trying to figure out how much money we were wasting on electricity to keep pretty fish in our houses. As you can guess, people with a thousand watts of lights running twelve hours a day didn't really want to look to closely to avoid the sticker shock. Besides, we casually spend WAY too much on fish and corals to worry about the cost of a few watts of power.
Amongst the replies though was someone from Pennsylvania paying 10.2 cents a kilowatt hour. That caught me off guard since my rate down here in Florida is only 5.2 cents per kilowatt hour. I expected some differences due to different markets, but a doubling of price?!?!
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