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Charlie: From Tom in Oak Forest.
Tom: Yes.
Charlie: He says, “Who has the best and most reliable energy rates these days?” He has the aforementioned Reliant.
Tom: They are the most expensive and you know what …
Charlie: Tom it gets better, wait.
Tom: Okay.
Charlie: Okay, don’t ruin this. He says they want him to renew for 11.7 cents per kilowatt hour and they’re using over 2000.
Tom: Mm-hmm (affirmative) I remember a friend of my …
Charlie: Yeah.
Tom: … sitting to my right.
Charlie: What kind of moron is that.
Tom: It took 3 years to convince him to go to powertochoose.org, who’s going to offer you a lot of choices depending on what kind of systems you got. I pay 5.3 cents, so you can imagine I’m paying less. His doesn’t include the delivery charges. They don’t put that onto the 11 …
Charlie: Right.
Tom: … and the actual cost for electricity I’m paying is 7/10 of a cent. My entire electric cost for 2,215 kilowatt hours, I know you hate me saying this, was $15.51 last month.
Charlie: Plus the delivery charges.
Tom: Delivery charge, so about 166 bucks total. That’s what he should probably be paying, too. Around 100 bucks, 120 bucks right now. Powertochoose.org is the answer. I can’t tell you who to go to. It’s all there for you and chances are you won’t find 11.6 cents until you go way down to the bottom where people hopefully don’t go when they’re scrolling.
Charlie: Before, dear listener, you even think about sending an email, asking what company it is. We’re not going to tell you.
Tom: I’ll tell you this. I’ve been with 6, 7 companies.
Charlie: Right, that’s the point.
Tom: I’ve been with this particular one I’m with twice.
Charlie: That’s the point.
Tom: This is a subsidiary of NRG, who will also charge you 11.1 if you go to their right DBA, so it’s all a big game to everybody. Just play the game and you will win.
Charlie: Right. It’s not like 1 company in particular is better than the other.
Tom: No.
Charlie: It’s go to powertochoose.org
Tom: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Charlie: Spin the roulette wheel of power.
Tom: The first ones that come up will be the cheapest and you can go from there.
Charlie: You say go 6 months?
Tom: There’s 3 questions they ask you. I’ll do this quickly. First off, you put in your zip code and then they’re going to say “Do you want a fixed rate, a variable rate?” Go with fixed rate. Then they’re going to ask you how many kilowatt hours approximately do you use each month. In my case it’s 2000. It’ll be either 500, 1000, or 2000. Put that in. Then they’ll say the term of the program. Go from 4 to 12 months. Put that in there and then go to the rates. It’ll all pop up and you’ll find something fantastic right in that range.
Make sure you don’t let … I’m sorry. Wait, Charlie. One more thing. Don’t let the plan run out in the middle of summer because that’s when prices are higher.