Amanda Lilienthal

Review of Eugene Water & Electric Board ...

My boyfriend and I, both students, live in a prett...

My boyfriend and I, both students, live in a pretty small one bedroom apartment near campus. And holy hell, these EWEB bills are killin' me. Our bills are extremely inconsistent. I wouldn't be surprised if they're just throwing numbers around because our bills make no sense whatsoever. We keep our heat on a low-setting from November to March and turn it off for the rest of the year. In the summer we use even less electricity, with the exception of a small fan we use 24/7 from June to September. We do a good job of using minimal electricity and our bills are still nuts. While they're almost always insanely high for such a tiny place (it's 800 sq. ft.), one month it was $24 and another month it was $80. But then it was $200. WHAT??? How is this possible?! The worst part is the summer! It's well over $150 every month in the summer when we're using no heat and minimal electricity in our tiny apartment! It's infuriating and makes it very hard to budget when our electricity bill is so inconsistent and usually very high. My mom lives in a large four bedroom house on the coast and her electricity bill doesn't even come close to ours. If another power company was in the area I'd switch in a heartbeat. I HATE EWEB.