It seems that a lot of the drilling for natural gas has caused prices to drop nationwide. However, our electricity bill seemed to keep going up. Rate increases are announced by the electricity suppliers. They have to get approval to raise their rates. Of course they do get the approval. The per kilowatt hour price may only increase by a tiny fraction, but you use a lot of kilowatts of energy in the average home nowadays. My wife found a website that had options to sign up with other energy providers that had lower per kilowatt hour prices. We just needed to understand the fine print.
We had no minimum usage requirements for our current energy provider. The company that had a lower rate did. However, that was not a problem. I looked at the bills going back two years and we consistently met the minimum kilowatt usage every month. In fact, we exceeded it by a good margin. There was no worry about dropping below the threshold and paying a fee. There was a term agreement too. Continue reading
I take my business very seriously. I know there are a lot of owners of companies that let others handle most things, but I like to get my hands dirty, so to speak. When there was an accident at one of our locations, I went there myself to find out what had happened. A worker escaped serious injury when one of the ladders to the roof came lose while he was on it. I wanted to make sure nothing like that ever happened again, so I did a search for a 
The first thing is to figure out what we are going to do and how much money we are going to be willing to put in to this. It is not like you can not plow tons of cash in to this sort of project. In theory we would like to do as much of it as we can by ourselves, but some of it might not be that practical. For instance we found this place that has a good deal on some really nice tempered glass