Zhao Meng's house is heated by electric heating, that is, central air conditioning.This type of heating is a very common heating method in the suburbs and villages of the northern United States, especially in places where natural gas pipelines are not yet connected.No way, now because of environmental problems, the United States as early as the sixties and seventies of the last century eliminated coal-fired small boilers, in the city because of natural gas pipelines and convenient gas supply, so most of the residents in the city are heated by natural gas or gas boiling water.In cities in the northern United States, most residential buildings have natural gas pipelines, so they can be heated directly with natural gas.In areas where there is no natural gas pipeline, there is usually a large gas tank behind the house, which is specially used to store gas.Filling a tank of gas can make a home heat for four months.Of course, the price of filling this tank of gas is also expensive, about 800 Dao Xiang Zhao Meng bought this kind of "rural" farm house, neither natural gas nor coal gas, gas is used for cooking, so the heating here is central air conditioning.However, electricity is much more expensive than using gas or natural gas.Many Chinese people may think that the electricity bill in the United States is cheap, but it is actually cheaper.Compared with the electricity bill in China, 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, about eight cents per kilowatt-hour, which is not too expensive.But in fact, there are many more problems with electricity bills in the United States.First of all, in addition to the price of your daily electricity bill, you also need to pay a fixed monthly fee every month, just like the landline fee of the landline used at home in the past, this price is fixed in the United States is 168 dollars a month.Secondly, there is also a pipe fee for electricity in the United States, that is, the grid fee, which is not fixed, but calculated based on your electricity consumption, and on average, you need to pay 1,115 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity.In addition, there are some taxes and miscellaneous fees.The price of electricity is not uniform across all states, and the price of electricity varies from state to state.For example, Hawaii's electricity bill is the highest in the United States, with a whopping 3,033 cents per kilowatt-hour and 3,142 cents in Alaska.As for Yang Jing's state of Montana, the electricity bill for one kilowatt-hour of electricity is 1,093 cents, ranking twelfth from the bottom in the United States, which is relatively cheap.But even then, when you add up the fixed monthly fee, plumbing fees, and other taxes and miscellaneous fees, the electricity bill for one kilowatt-hour of electricity in Montana is close to 25 cents!
And Americans' electricity consumption is almost the highest in the world.According to the data survey, the average monthly household electricity consumption in the United States is 897 kilowatt hours, which is nearly 900 kilowatt hours a month.This number is a very terrifying number, how much is the average monthly household electricity consumption in Huaxia?
Of course, the fact that Americans use so much electricity is also directly related to the living habits of Americans.As we all know, Americans are arguably the most wasteful in the world, no matter what, it's wasteful.Americans usually buy a dozen shirts, and after a shirt is dirty for a few days, people don't wash it at all, just replace it with a new one, and throw away the dirty old shirt.In Huaxia, a shirt can't wear the curtains of an American family for ten years, and it is changed twice a year, while in Huaxia, the curtains at home can't be used for twenty years, and there are countless problems like this in the United States.This is a wasteful act, but it is a common practice in the United States.The same is true for electricity.If in our country, the use of central air conditioning for heating, except for those whose family conditions are particularly good, will turn on the air conditioning 24 hours a day, ordinary people's homes are basically closed when they go out, and then open when they enter.In the winter of the United States, the central air conditioning 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 conditioning will never be turned off.Therefore, in American families that use electric heating, using 2,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity a month in winter is like playing.It's like Zhao Meng's house, which is almost unoccupied, but the Jones brothers come here twice a week for two nights, but even so, the air conditioning here is on 24 hours a day.Even if Yang Jing prides himself on being rich, after learning about this situation, he can't help but twitch the corners of his eyes.It's not about money or not, it's about ignoring waste and habits, which is simply terrifying.However, such a waste is not without benefit, at least Yang Jing felt very warm immediately after entering the house.You must know that such a large house is still two floors up and down, if you turn on the air conditioner after entering the door, if you want to raise the temperature, it will be at least an hour later.You know, the temperature outside has dropped to minus four or five degrees now, and with the strong north wind, this temperature has been falling rapidly.The warm room made all three of them take off their coats, and the Jones brothers did not shirk Yang Jing's invitation.Both of them have a cheerful personality and like to make friends, so they happily agreed to Yang Jing's invitation.Of course, his brother and son did not eat for nothing, when Yang Jing was busy cooking, his younger brother Michael drove out again, and when he came back, he brought back two bottles of red wine.Just as Michael returned, snowflakes began to fall in the sky.When Yang Jing went to the North Pole last year, he had seen a snowstorm like a knife and a permafrost glacier, but he bet he really hadn't seen such a big snowflake.In fact, the reason why the blizzard in the Arctic is so strong is because the wind is very strong.When a strong cold wave breaks out in the Arctic, the wind can exceed 12 in an instant, not to mention people, even cars will blow you over.As a result, the snowflakes are usually not very large when an Arctic blizzard comes, because the snowflakes are torn into ice chips by the violent cold wind before they even fall.The blizzard in the Arctic is a squall mixed with ice particles!
But the blizzard here, that's really what is usually called a blizzard.Because when the snowflakes start to fall, the wind that has been raging for most of the day disappears, and the sky is full of snowflakes.The goose feather snow is no longer enough to describe the size of the snowflakes in this blizzard, and it is more appropriate to describe it with a child's slap.With such a large snowflake and a terrifying density, the ground was already white in just a few minutes.Michael entered the house with two bottles of red wine mixed with the cold, and as soon as he entered the house, he shouted: "Albert, Roy, this snow is not small, for the crops in the field, this is a good thing, but for the pastures that are not prepared, this is 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 are not ready can only say that they are too lazy. ”Yang Jing poured out the cooked pork ribs in the pressure cooker, filtered the soup into a large bowl, and only left the large ribs stewed in the plate, and then began to put oil in the oil pan, and fried the sugar in the hot pan with cold oil.After the rock sugar in the pot melted and began to bubble slightly, Yang Jing's stewed pork ribs were poured in and began to stir-fry, until the ribs were coated with a layer of dark red sugar, then the ginger slices, spices, cinnamon and other spices were put into the pot and continued to stir-fry, and finally the prepared sweet and sour juice was handed over, and a little boiling water was added to simmer.After a few minutes of simmering, the heat is reduced to reduce the juice, and when the soup is almost collected, the dish is served - 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 tenderloin, pot collapsed tofu and four cold dishes.In this way, four hot, four cold and eight dishes directly put a table full, and finally there is a tomato 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 the decanter, then said, "Albert, this wine is made by my mother."
When my family used to have a farm, they would grow about five acres of grapes every year, and every year my mother would make a batch of red wine.It's not as famous as those top wines, but it's definitely delicious. ”Roy also laughed, "That's right, my maternal grandfather was the most famous winemaker in our area, and my mother learned from my maternal grandfather.Her wine is very popular in our local area, and even Helena is visited by people who come to buy it. ”Yang Jing also took out a black jar like a trick, and said with a smile: "Okay, today we will taste your home-brewed red wine first, and then I have a jar of good wine here."
This jar of wine has been cellared for more than 60 years, and in our China, if such a jar of wine is auctioned, it can fetch about 200,000 US dollars.In a moment, both of you will taste the wine I have brought. ”Yang Jing's number startled the brothers, and they had the heart to refuse, but in the end they opened their mouths and didn't say anything.In fact, Yang Jing suddenly came to this kind of place, one wanted to find a secluded place to cross, and the other was that he also wanted to rest for a while.Since it's a vacation break, making two friends is also in the plan.And these brothers gave Yang Jing a very good feeling, not as rude as the red necks they saw in Texas, and their eyes were on their foreheads, looking down on Chinese people, so Yang Jing took out a jar of old wine.The red wine brewed by the mother of the Jones brothers tasted really good, but red wine was not Yang Jing's favorite after all, so after drinking two glasses, Yang Jing decisively changed to white wine.After a glass of white wine, Yang Jing looked at the getting bigger and bigger snow outside the window and said, "It looks like this snow can't stop tonight, Roy, Michael, don't go back tonight, there should be a guest room here, right?"
”Roy Jones nodded and said, "Yes, Michael and I stay here for two days a week, and there is a guest room on the first floor. ”Michael also smiled: "Roy and I stayed for dinner today, but we didn't plan to leave."
It seems that this snow may not be able to fall for a day, and Roy and I are also worried that the snow will be too big and affect the houses here, so we stayed just in case. ”"Thank you so much, come on, let's keep drinking!"
The three of them were eating and drinking happily in the steaming room, while the heavy snow outside was getting bigger and bigger: bowing and thanking "very lazy fish" and "gentle knife" 100 tips.