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Average American family "can't pay their bills"
- Thread starter turkeyneck
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Iâm a retired physicist, not able to slug it out with you sharp traders, but here is an interest approximate fact about a $400/ month electric bill:
Assume n 100W bulbs burning 10 hours/ day 30days per month. That is n times 30KwH, which at $0.10/ KwH is 3n dollars monthly. So that must be some house if needs the equivalent of 400/3 =133 light bulbs on all night. More than a dozen in each room if a 10 room house! Thus, I bet it is mainly electric heat, not lights, if true.
Assume n 100W bulbs burning 10 hours/ day 30days per month. That is n times 30KwH, which at $0.10/ KwH is 3n dollars monthly. So that must be some house if needs the equivalent of 400/3 =133 light bulbs on all night. More than a dozen in each room if a 10 room house! Thus, I bet it is mainly electric heat, not lights, if true.
Quote from billdick:
Iâm a retired physicist, not able to slug it out with you sharp traders, but here is an interest approximate fact about a $400/ month electric bill:
Assume n 100W bulbs burning 10 hours/ day 30days per month. That is n times 30KwH, which at $0.10/ KwH is 3n dollars monthly. So that must be some house if needs the equivalent of 400/3 =133 light bulbs on all night. More than a dozen in each room if a 10 room house! Thus, I bet it is mainly electric heat, not lights, if true.
That math hurt my brain.
All you need to break the $400 light bill is a small pool.
Quote from Ivanovich:
Regarding the article...one of those families has five children. My wife and I have one. One. We thought long and hard about another one and realized that with another child comes the expense of another child. That expense is not to be taken lightly. Some folks just keep having kids without any regards to what it's going to cost them down the line. [/B]
How come no one else caught on to this? Five children??? This country is overpopulated as it is . . . and there are people out there having children that they can't afford. They're just perpetuating the problem.