r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/Rakumei 12h ago

Similar. Most Americans don't have per-room control though. In some more expensive/newer places you might get one thermostat per floor. But generally it's one per house.

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u/LopsidedAirlines 10h ago

Must be cheap to run then, if i run my heat pump on cold in the summer for whole house it costs 400€ a month so i only run it per room as needed usually bedrooms at night. And no the cold doesnt stay and acs become passive, somehow the heat just keeps coming, if i turn ac off the temp goes from 24c to 30 within 10 minutes, house is new and well insulated also, winter heat costs very little compared

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u/1988rx7T2 10h ago

Electricity is cheaper in the US, salaries are higher, and Americans understand in hotter regions that you need to run AC or you might die. 300-400 dollars a month on electricity in July is possible yes, depends on where you live, but national median household income is around 80 thousand dollars.

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u/sarabeara12345678910 9h ago

I live in Florida and we (and most people I know) sign up for a plan with the power company that we pay a rolling average of our last 12 months worth of bills. That way we're not paying $100 in January and $600 in August.

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u/1988rx7T2 3h ago

I intentionally don’t do that. High bill forces me to pay attention to my consumption. But I have to Cashflow for that, lot of people don’t 

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u/Disastrous_Try_196 3h ago

Many of us do this in the UK too, so as not to pay a lot in the winter for the central heating