If you would like to feel good about your low utility bill from
living in the south, this is so you can see just how much you
are saving on your utilities by not living in Michigan.

The energy provider in Detroit is DTE. According to the bill
for January 2021, my average daily electric cost for the time
period was $4.32. [[It's twice what it was for me this time last
year - there is a little chart showing that I used 10.1 KWH per
day in January 2020 vs. 22.1 KWH in January 2021. There's
a bit more lighting and a new furnace system this year but
I am probably due to break out the Kill-A-Watt meter to verify
that these are the reason for the higher usage.) The little
chart for natural gas usage shows 7.2 CCF this year versus
6.7 CCF last January. The average daily gas cost for January
was $5.74. The total current charges were a bit over $300.
It is for a house that is about 1,000 square feet.

After about 2022 a price increase of about 11% will be added in
to everyone's utility bill.

That certainly may push some Michiganders towards Florida.

But just for today, here there are minimal bugs, the
birds are singing [[to be sure some of them are Canada geese)
and the coal fired plant across the river was fired up this
morning, sending energy onto the grid for everyone
to the south except Texas.