We are just coming out of the cold winter months and the hurt in the wallet is felt by many as they cope with heating bills, on top of economic hardship. When does it pay off to have an alternative power, heat and water system (from a personal economic perspective)?
My son, Henry, who helped me build the Oasis House was really envious when his electric bill came in and showed that he used $252 in electricity for the month of February. His well-insulated new apartment has a wood stove for heat, along with energy efficient silicone filled electric base board and measures about 1500 square feet. The Oasis Hybrid Home, where I live, is twice that size and the electric bill was $53. The other difference between both houses is that Henry lives there with his wife and was watching his electrical consumption carefully, while I live at the Oasis with my wife and three children and was not watching the electrical consumption too much. We live in an area of Montana, where the electricity is supplied by a non-profit co-op that gives us really good rates and we do not get charged separately for water and sewage. If I were to assume that Henry lived in a house twice the size of his current one (more equal to the size of the Oasis Hybrid Home) his bill would con
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