How to Score a $7.67 Energy Bill (Including the Green Energy Contribution)

• Live in an apartment complex with laundry and water heaters somewhere down the hall, and thus not tied to your personal energy bill.
• Place your electronics on power strips and turn them off at night.
• Replace your light bulbs with CFLs.
• Live somewhere you need minimal heat (space heaters turned on occasionally) and even more minimal cooling (fans once or twice a year).
• We also got a brand new fridge when we moved in, but it does not appear to be an energy star appliance.
  

Our energy bills in New Mexico in non-winter months could be as low as $20 in our free-standing houses, including one that had a giant refrigerator and in which we had installed a washing machine. However, we did have a frontloader and we did not have a dryer. We did then, and still do now, hang dry all our clothes, sheets, towels, etc. Try it. You'll like it.