Yes some people pay lots for electric. My whole house bill for electric, water, sewer, garbage and gas, is all together on one bill, and I run two 1500 watt heaters outside, one in the pond and one fan heater in the greenhouse (on low setting), with the house heated and everything, bill last month was only $225.00. My house is small and that makes it much cheaper too for heat.
Medicine Hat does have the cheapest utitility bills for much of Canada cause we have our own city power plant run on natural gas. Medicine Hat has lots of natural gas and they say we have "all hell" for a basement cause natural gas is everywhere here. The natural gas can be seen bubbling in the river in this one area next to the "bad lands" all summer and winter. At the creek here a block away people tell stories of ice fishing and after they drill hole in ice they can light the hole and get flames from the natural gas that burbs up under the creek bed.
We have a lot of "bad lands" around here were dinosaur fossils can be found, and lots of the hills around here have seams of natural coal layers sticking out everywhere, coal can also be easily found everywhere in the river area. I have lots of woodland buffalo bones in my garden in the front yard from 200 years back when Medicine Hat populated by local Indian tribes. That's how Medicine Hat got it's name, the local Indian medicine man lost his Indian feather headdress in the river. The story is actually quite barbaric and bloody. We have old Indian burial grounds here too....
