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It is not possible your paying 71 cents a kilowatt hour. You definately got wrong information. I'm east coast and I'm paying 15 cents a kilowatt hour. Take a look at your electric bill. It will tell you what your paying . You should see what the distributer charges. That number is gonna be low. Probally about 5 cents a kilowatt hour. Then you have a price from your actual electric company. Probally about 10 cents a killowatt hour. That gives you a total of 15 cents a kilowatt hour. You can definately relax a bit. 71 cents is DEFINATELY wrong.