oldrustytulsa, Tulsa (11/9/2009 6:48:03 AM)

The biggest savings would be to Vote out the corporation commission, they all are in bed with the utility companies.

my view, Sand Springs (11/9/2009 9:44:44 AM)

I set my thermostat on 72 and leave that way year around, it works for me.

zTruth, Tulsa (11/9/2009 12:14:04 PM)

"The biggest savings would be to Vote out the corporation commission, they all are in bed with the utility companies."

Excellent.

Just curious - what does the president of ONG and PSO make?

FS, Broken Arrow (11/9/2009 12:14:06 PM)

I forget which utility it was, but one of them (gas or electric/power generation) made a big deal about "locking in" one prices for the upcoming year - this big push came at the time it was evident natural gas rpices were going to drop.

Sorry boys - some of us were able to read beyond your scare tactics. The dolts in your offices will just have to squeeze by on their salaries this year without millions in bonuses at the consumer's expense.

My heart bleeds purple panther p_$$ for the "poor" executives.

Alan Shore, (11/9/2009 6:15:21 AM)

Gotta pay for those ONOEOK TV ads somehow...

Elusive, the burbs (11/10/2009 12:34:57 AM)

We turn our's down to 65 at night as well and use an electric blanket. Everyone's thermostat is different and may not be accurate. We have to keep our's around 71 to be comfortable in the winter and 74 in the summer. There are still things that need to be washed in hot water or warm to get clean. You can't use cold for everything. I think a guy must have written that. :)

2ndjoyce, BA (11/10/2009 12:23:07 AM)

We discovered how well we slept in a cold house during the ice storm. All those years... who knew? Now we turn the thermostat down to around 65 during the winter. We sleep like babies.

kyote, (11/9/2009 6:01:09 PM)

If everyone did this it would make sense the utility bills would go down because they are generating less electric and using less natural gas, but with out corporation commission in bed with the utilities this is not going to happen they are still asking for rate increases and will get them. They ask for twice what they want so they can get what they want.

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reckless abandon, Tulsa (11/9/2009 6:24:50 AM)

we just had a tankless water heater installed and are looking forward to seeing how much savings we will realize with the change.

tricky ricky, (11/9/2009 7:00:03 AM)

what makes me mad is that you do all or most ofthese saving tips then the gas or electric company goes and ask for a rate increase because they are not selling enough. why are they granted these increases? i called the corporation comm. and ask him the same question and his reply was i just don"t know the answer. they just need to tighten their belts like everyone else. lay-off workers like any other private company. don"t buy new trucks every two years. don"t have five men on a job when 3 can do the job.

Daniel Day Simpson, Edmond (11/9/2009 8:05:42 AM)

Break your meter. It takes them a minimum of 3 billing cycles to figure it out. I'm kidding but I did have a defective meter a few years ago. It slowed down to a trickle no matter what I did in the house. The bad side was the one leg was totally down. You see there are two 110v legs that run through the meter. They are out of phase and its what gives you 220 for your a/c. So when one leg went down I did loose my a/c. But the meter went out in October. So my heater still worked because it was gas and happened to be wired to the working leg. But outlets and fixtures in the home that were on the defective leg did not work. So I did some basic rewiring. I accommodated the meter outage. I used space heaters for heat. Well, in March the gig was up. After spending a winter with no heating bill, they figured out that a $15 electric bill was not right. So they installed a shiny new meter. But it was just in time for me to use my central a/c so it was fine.

uklynbereg, (11/9/2009 4:28:23 PM)

MyView, are you joking? You keep your thermostat at 72 year 'round? Seventy-two is warmer than necessary in the winter and much cooler than necessary in the summer. But, if you like high bills, there's no need to change.

Stalemate, (11/9/2009 12:25:02 PM)

tricky ricky, when the utility sells less energy they recover less of their costs, and they still have fixed costs such as pipelines and power lines that have to be paid for. that is why the price per unit would go up, when less energy is used.