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? The heating method used in Zhao Meng's house is electric heating, that is, central air-conditioning.

This heating method is a very common heating method in urban suburbs and villages and towns in the northern United States, especially in places where natural gas pipelines have not been connected, almost all use this electric heating method.

No way. Because of environmental protection issues, the United States eliminated small coal-fired boilers as early as the 1960s and 1970s. In cities, because of the natural gas pipelines and convenient gas supply, most of the residents in cities use natural gas or Gas and water are used for heating.

In cities in the northern United States, most residential buildings have natural gas pipelines, so natural gas can be directly used for heating. In areas where there is no natural gas pipeline access, there is usually a large gas tank behind residential houses, which is used to store gas. Filling a tank of gas can keep the house heating for four months. Of course, the price of filling this tank of gas is also expensive, about eight hundred dollars...

Think of the "rural" farm house that Zhao Meng bought. There is no natural gas or gas. The gas is used for cooking, so central air conditioning is used for heating here.

But electricity can be much more expensive than gas or natural gas.

Maybe many Chinese people think that the electricity bill in the United States is cheap, but it's actually cheaper by P.

Compared with China's electricity bill, the electricity bill in the United States is several times more expensive.

Those who don’t know the situation only know that the average electricity bill in the United States is less than 12 cents, which is about 80 cents of the national currency. In other words, this price is not expensive. But in fact, there are still a lot of tricks in American electricity bills.

First of all, in addition to your daily electricity bill at this price, you also need to pay a fixed monthly fee every month. Just like the landline fee for the landline used at home in the past, this price is fixed at $16.8 per month in the United States. Secondly, electricity consumption in the United States also needs to pay a pipeline fee, that is, the grid fee. This price is not fixed, but calculated based on your electricity consumption. On average, you need to pay 11.15 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity. In addition, there are some taxes and miscellaneous fees.

Electricity tariffs are not uniform across the states, and electricity tariffs vary from state to state. For example, Hawaii's electricity bill is the highest in the United States, with a kilowatt-hour of electricity cost as high as 30.33 cents, and Alaska also has 31.42 cents.

As for the state of Montana where Yang Jing is located, the electricity bill for one kilowatt-hour is 10.93 cents, ranking 12th from the bottom in the United States, which is relatively cheap.

But even so, including fixed monthly fees, pipeline fees, and other taxes and miscellaneous fees, in Montana, the electricity bill for a kilowatt-hour is close to 25 cents!

And Americans’ electricity consumption is almost the highest in the world. According to data surveys, the average monthly household electricity consumption in the United States is 897 kWh, which is close to 900 kWh a month. This number is very scary. What is the average monthly electricity consumption of China's households? It's less than one-tenth of this number...

Of course, Americans use so much electricity, which is also directly related to Americans' living habits.

As we all know, Americans can be said to be the most wasteful in the world, no matter what, it is a waste.

Americans usually buy a dozen shirts at a time. After a shirt is dirty for a few days, they don't wash it at all. They just replace it with a new one, and throw away the dirty and old shirts. In China, I want to wear a shirt for ten years...

The curtains of American families are changed twice a year, and Huaxia, the curtains at home can’t be used for 20 years...

Other problems like this are numerous in the United States.

This is actually an extremely wasteful behavior, but it is accustomed to it in the United States.

The same is true with electricity. If in our country, central air-conditioning is used for heating, except for those families whose conditions are particularly good, they will turn on the air-conditioning 24 hours a day. Ordinary people basically turn off the door when they go out and turn on the door when they enter.

In the winter in the United States, the central air conditioner is basically turned on 24 hours a day. At most, when the owner goes out, the temperature is slightly lowered to 18 degrees, but the air conditioner is definitely not turned off.

Therefore, in American households that use electric heating, using two thousand kilowatt-hours of electricity a month in winter is just like playing.

It's like Zhao Meng's house is almost unoccupied, except that the Jones brothers come to stay here twice a week for two nights, but even so, the air conditioner here is turned on 24 hours a day.

Even if Yang Jing claimed to be rich, he couldn't help but twitch his eyes after learning of this situation.

This has nothing to do with the question of money or not, but this attitude and habits of life that simply ignore waste, which is simply terrifying.

However, such a waste is not without any good, at least Yang Jing felt very warm immediately after entering the house. You must know that such a large house is still on two floors. If you turn on the air conditioner after you enter the door, if you want to raise the temperature, it will be at least an hour later.

You know, the outside temperature has dropped to minus four or five degrees, and with the strong north wind, the temperature is still falling rapidly.

The warm room caused all three of them to take off their coats, and Brother Jones did not decline to Yang Jing's invitation. Both of their brothers have that kind of cheerful personality, and they especially like to make friends. Therefore, they happily agreed to Yang Jing's invitation.

Of course, his brothers did not eat for nothing. When Yang Jing was busy cooking, his brother Michael drove out again, and brought two bottles of red wine when he returned.

As soon as Michael came back, snow began to drift in the sky.

When Yang Jing went to the North Pole last year, he had seen knife-like snowstorms and ever-frozen glaciers, but he bet he had never seen such a big snowflake.

In fact, the reason why the Arctic blizzard is severe is that it is very windy. When a strong cold wave erupts in the North Pole, the instantaneous wind can exceed twelve levels, let alone people, even cars will blow you over. Therefore, when the Arctic blizzard comes, the snowflakes are usually not very large, because those snowflakes are torn into ice fragments by the violent cold wind before they fall.

The blizzard in the Arctic is squally wind mixed with ice particles!

But the blizzard here is really a blizzard in the usual sense. Because when the snowflakes begin to fall, the gust of wind that has been raging for most of the day disappears, and is replaced by snow in the sky.

Goose feathers and heavy snow are no longer enough to describe the size of the snowflakes in this blizzard. It is more appropriate to describe it with the slap of a child. With such a large snowflake coupled with the terrifying density, the ground was already white in just a few minutes.

Michael came into the house with two bottles of red wine mixed with cold air, and shouted as soon as he entered the house: "Albert, Roy, this snow is not small, for the crops in the field, this is a good thing, but For those ranches that are under-prepared, this is a disaster."

Roy, who has been helping in the kitchen, laughed and said: "The weather forecast issued a blizzard warning three days ago. Those unprepared ranches can only say that they are too lazy."

Yang Jing poured out the stuffy ribs in the pressure cooker, strained the soup into a large bowl, and only the large stewed ribs remained on the plate, and then began to put the oil in the oil pan. Heat the pan to cool. Fried in oil with sugar color.

After the rock sugar in the pot melted and began to bubbling slightly, Yang Jing poured in the cooked pork ribs and started to stir fry. After the ribs were covered with a layer of dark red sugar, then the **** slices and big Put the ingredients, cinnamon and other spices into the pot and continue to stir-fry. Finally, the prepared sweet and sour sauce is added and braised with a little boiled water.

After a few minutes of boring, the fire collected the juice, and when the soup was almost collected, I started to prepare the dish-a delicious sweet and sour pork ribs.

Before making this dish, Yang Jing also picked up a few dishes, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, sweet and sour pork tenderloin, potta tofu and four cold dishes.

In this way, four hot, four cold and eight dishes will be filled with a table, and finally a tomato seaweed soup, that is, the minister will go to the countryside, eight dishes and one soup.

Michael opened a bottle of red wine and poured it into the decanter. Then he said, "Albert, this wine is brewed by my mother. When my family had a farm, they planted about five acres of grapes every year. My mother will make a batch of red wines. Although not as famous as those top red wines, they are absolutely delicious."

Roy also smiled and said: "Yes, my grandfather was the most famous winemaker in our area. My mother learned from my grandfather. The wine she brewed is very popular in our local area, even Helena Someone came here to buy it."

Yang Jing also conjured up a black jar and said with a smile: "Well, today we will taste your home-brewed red wine first, and then I have a jar of good wine here. This jar has already been cellared for 60 years. For many years, in our China, if such a jar of wine goes to auction, it will probably sell for $200,000. You two will also taste the wine I brought."

The number Yang Jing said shocked the brothers. They refused, but in the end they opened their mouths and said nothing.

In fact, Yang Jing suddenly came to this kind of place. One wanted to find a secluded place to travel easily, and the other was that he also wanted to take a good rest for a while.

Since it's a vacation, making two friends is also in the plan. Moreover, the two brothers felt very good for Yang Jing. They were not as rude as the red necks they saw in Texas. They had eyes on their foreheads and looked down upon Chinese people, so Yang Jing took out a jar of old wine.

The red wine made by the Jones brothers’ mother really tasted good, but the red wine was not Yang Jing’s favorite after all, so after drinking two glasses, Yang Jing decisively changed to white wine.

After drinking a glass of liquor~www.readwn.com~ Yang Jing looked at the snow that was getting bigger and bigger outside the window and said: “This snow seems to be going to stop tonight, Roy and Michael, don’t both of you go back tonight. , There should be a guest room here, right?"

Roy Jones nodded and said, "Yes, Michael and I live here two days a week. There are rooms on the first floor."

Michael also laughed: "I stayed for dinner with Roy today, but actually didn't plan to leave. It seems that this snow may not end for a day. Roy and I are also worried that the snow will be too big and affect the house here, so We stay here just in case."

"That's really thank you both, come, let's continue drinking!"

The three people ate and drank happily in the steaming room, while the snow outside was getting heavier and heavier...

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