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07/17/2001 Entry: "Cheney's $186,000 Electricity Bill: Math Time"

Cheney is racking up a $186,000 electricity bill in his 33 room mansion. I find that unbelievable. Let's do some back-of-the-envelope calculations to put this number into perspective a little:

I have a one bedroom apartment and my electricity bill has never been over $100 a month, even during summer with my computer on 24/7. Lets see - that would be around $1200 a year for let's call it 4 rooms. That makes around $300 dollars a room. If I had 33 rooms, I'd expect my bill to be around $9,900 dollars.

Soooo, in order to waste as much energy as the VP, I'd have to increase usage 186000/9900 = 1879 %

But it gets better. There's something like 200 units in my apartment building. Assuming they have similar energy usage to my apartment, that would put the usage for the entire building, all 800 rooms at something around $198,000, which is a tad bit over the VP's bill.

If I were a hungry reporter, I'd be looking at where the money for the electricity bills was really going.