Easy Tycoon

Chapter 842 A Palm-Big Snowflake
Zhao Meng's house is heated by electric heating, that is, central air-conditioning.

This heating method is very common in the suburbs and villages in the northern United States, especially in places where natural gas pipelines have not yet been connected, this electric heating method is almost always used.

No way, now because of environmental protection issues, the United States eliminated small coal-fired boilers as early as the 70s and [-]s. In cities, because of natural gas pipelines and convenient gas supply, most urban residents use natural gas or gas for heating Boil water for heating.

In the northern cities of the United States, most residential buildings have access to natural gas pipelines, so they can directly use natural gas to heat water.In areas without access to natural gas pipelines, there is usually a large gas tank behind the residential building, which is specially used to store gas.A full tank of gas can heat a home for four months.Of course, the price of filling this tank of gas is also expensive, about [-] knives
Think of the "rural" farm house that Zhao Meng bought, neither natural gas nor coal gas. Gas is used for cooking, so the heating here is central air-conditioning.

But electricity is 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 is actually cheaper by P.

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

People 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 [-] cents of the national currency, which is not expensive.But in fact, there are still many tricks in American electricity bills.

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

The price of electricity in every state in the United States is not uniform, and the price of electricity in each state is not the same.For example, the electricity bill in Hawaii is the highest in the United States. The electricity bill for a kilowatt-hour of electricity is as high as 30.33 cents, and Alaska also has 31.42 cents.

As for the state of Montana where Yang Jing lives, the electricity bill for one kilowatt-hour of electricity is 10.93 cents, ranking No.12 from the bottom in the United States, which is relatively cheap.

But even then, when you add in the flat monthly fee, plumbing, and other taxes and miscellaneous charges, the cost of electricity in Montana is close to 25 cents per kWh!

And the electricity consumption in the United States is almost the highest in the world.According to data surveys, the average monthly electricity consumption of households in the United States is 897 kWh, which is close to 900 kWh a month.This number is a very scary number. How much is the average monthly electricity consumption of a household in Huaxia?less than one-tenth of that 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, they are very wasteful.

Americans usually buy shirts by the dozen. After wearing a shirt for a few days and getting dirty, people don’t wash it at all, just replace it with a new one, and throw away the dirty old shirt.In China, one can wear a shirt for ten years.
The curtains of American families are changed twice a year, but in China, the curtains at home can’t wait for 20 years
There are countless other problems like this in the United States.

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

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

In 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 [-] degrees, but the air conditioner will never be turned off.

Therefore, in American families that use electric heating, using [-] kilowatt-hours of electricity a month in winter is just like playing.

Just like Zhao Meng's house, almost no one lives there, but the Jones brothers come here twice a week to stay here for two nights, but even so, the air conditioner here is on 24 hours a day.

Even though Yang Jing claimed to be rich, the corners of his eyes couldn't help twitching after learning about this situation.

This has nothing to do with the issue of money or not, but this attitude and living habit of ignoring waste at all, it is simply too horrible.

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

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

The warm room made all three of them take off their coats, and the Jones brothers did not refuse Yang Jing's invitation.The two brothers are naturally cheerful and like to make friends, so they readily agreed to Yang Jing's invitation.

Of course, his brothers didn't eat for nothing. While Yang Jing was busy cooking, his younger brother Michael drove out again, and brought back two bottles of red wine when he came back.

Just as Michael came back, snow began to fall in the sky.

When Yang Jing went to the North Pole last year, he had seen snowstorms like knives and permafrost glaciers, but he dared to bet that he had never seen such a big snowflake.

In fact, the reason why the blizzard in the Arctic is so severe is because of the strong wind.When a strong cold wave breaks out in the North Pole, the wind force can exceed level [-] in an instant, not to mention people, even cars will be blown over by you.Therefore, when the Arctic blizzard comes, the snowflakes are usually not very large, because those snowflakes are torn into ice chips by the violent cold wind before they fall.

A blizzard in the North Pole is a strong wind mixed with ice particles!
But the blizzard here is really a blizzard in the usual sense.Because when the snowflakes began to fall, the strong wind that had been raging for most of the day disappeared, replaced by snowflakes all over the sky.

Goose Feather Heavy Snow is no longer enough to describe the size of the snowflakes in this blizzard, it is more appropriate to describe it with a child's slap.With such a large snowflake and the terrifying density, in just a few minutes, the ground was already white.

Michael entered the house with two bottles of red wine mixed with the cold air, and shouted as soon as he entered the room: "Albert, Roy, this snow is not to be taken lightly. It is a good thing for the crops in the field, but For those ranches that weren't prepared, it's a disaster."

Roy, who has been helping in the kitchen, said with a smile: "The weather forecast issued a blizzard warning three days ago, and those ranches that were not prepared can only say that they are too lazy."

Yang Jing poured out the stuffed pork ribs from the pressure cooker, filtered the soup into a large bowl, and only the stewed large ribs remained on the plate, and then began to put oil in the oil pan. Oil fried sugar color.

After the rock sugar in the pot melted and started to bubble slightly, Yang Jing poured the stewed ribs into it and started to stir-fry. After the ribs were covered with a layer of dark red sugar color, the ginger, large Put ingredients, cinnamon and other spices into the pot and continue to stir fry. Finally, add the prepared sweet and sour juice, add a little boiling water and simmer over low heat.

After being bored for a few minutes, the soup was collected on high heat, and when the soup was almost collected, the dish was served—a delicious sweet and sour pork ribs.

Before cooking this dish, Yang Jing also prepared several dishes, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, sweet and sour pork tenderloin, potted tofu and four cold dishes.

In this way, four hot, four cold and eight dishes directly fill a table to the brim, and finally there is a tomato and seaweed soup, that is, the minister goes to the countryside, eight dishes and one soup.

Michael opened a bottle of red wine and poured it into a decanter, and then said: "Albert, this wine is made by my mother. When my family had a farm, we planted about five acres of grapes every year. My mother would brew a batch of red wine. Although the reputation is not as great as those top red wines, it is definitely very delicious."

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

Yang Jing also took out a black jar as if conjuring, and said with a smile: "Okay, today we will taste your home-made red wine first, and then I have a good wine here. This wine has been cellared for more than 60 years Well, in China, if such a jar of wine is auctioned, it can fetch about 20 US dollars. Later, you two will also taste the wine I brought. "

The number Yang Jing said startled the two brothers. They refused, but finally opened their mouths and said nothing.

In fact, Yang Jing came to this kind of place suddenly, 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, it's also in the plan to make two friends.Moreover, the two brothers gave Yang Jing a good feeling, they were not as rude as those red necks seen in Dezhou, and they had eyes on their foreheads, looking down on Chinese people, so Yang Jing took out a jar of old wine.

The red wine brewed by Brother Jones' mother was really good, but after all, red wine was not Yang Jing's favorite, so after drinking two glasses, Yang Jing decisively switched to white wine.

After drinking a glass of white wine, Yang Jing looked at the snow that was getting bigger and bigger outside the window and said, "It looks like the snow won't stop tonight, Roy, Michael, don't go back tonight, there should be a guest room here." ?”

Roy Jones nodded and said, "Yes, Michael and I will stay here for two days a week. There is a guest room on the first floor."

Michael also smiled and said, "Roy and I stayed for dinner today, but we actually didn't intend to leave. It seems that the snow may not finish in a day, and Roy and I are also worried that the snow will be too heavy, which will affect the houses here, so We stayed here just in case."

"Thank you both so much, come on, let's continue drinking!"

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