The heating method used by Zhao Meng's house is electric heating, namely central air conditioning.

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

There is no way. Now, due to environmental protection issues, the United States eliminated small coal-fired boilers as early as the 1960s and 1970s. In cities, there are natural gas pipelines and convenient gas supply, so most residents in cities use natural gas or gas to boil water for heating.

In cities in northern United States, most residential buildings have natural gas pipelines, so they can be directly heated with natural gas. In areas without natural gas pipelines, there is usually a large gas tank behind the residential house, which is specially used to store gas. Filling a can of gas can make the residential house heat for four months. Of course, filling this can of gas is also expensive, about 800 yuan...

I think the "rural" farm house that Zhao Meng bought does not have natural gas or gas, and gas is used for cooking, so the heating here is all made of central air conditioning.

However, electricity can be much more expensive than gas or natural gas.

Many Chinese people may think that the electricity bill in the United States is cheap, but in fact, it is cheaper.

Compared with China's electricity bills, the electricity bills in the United States are 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 80 cents per kilowatt-hour. If you want to say that this price is not expensive. But in fact, there are still many tricks in the electricity bill in the United States.

First of all, in addition to the price you use for daily electricity, you also need to pay a fixed monthly fee every month, just like the landline fee we used to use at home. This price is $16.8 a month in the United States. Secondly, you also need to pay a pipeline fee, that is, the grid fee, which is the power 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.

The electricity bills in states across the United States are not uniform, and the electricity bills in states are different. For example, Hawaii has the highest electricity bill in the United States, with electricity bills of as high as 30.33 cents at one kilowatt-hour, and Alaska has 31.42 cents.

As for Montana, where Yang Jing is located, the electricity bill for one kilowatt-hour was 10.93 cents, ranking second to last 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 one kilowatt-hour is close to 25 cents!

Americans can almost say that the electricity consumption is the highest in the world. According to data surveys, the average monthly electricity consumption of households in the United States is 897 kilowatt-hours, which is close to 900 kilowatt-hours per month. This number is a very terrifying number. How much is the average monthly electricity consumption of households in China? It is less than one-tenth of this number...

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

As we all know, Americans can be said to be the most wasted in the world, no matter what, they are very wasteful.

Americans usually buy shirts one by one. After wearing a shirt for a few days, they don’t wash it at all, and they just change it to new ones, throw away the dirty old shirts. In China, they want to wear a shirt for ten years...

The curtains for American families are changed twice a year, while in China, the curtains at home are hopelessly used for twenty years...

There are countless other problems similar to this in the United States.

This is actually an extremely wasteful act, but it is used to it in the United States.

The same is true for electricity use. If central air conditioners are used in our country, except for those families with particularly good conditions, they will turn on the air conditioner twenty-four hours a day. Ordinary people basically close their homes when they go out and open them again when they enter.

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

Therefore, in American families that use electricity for heating, using 2,000 kWh of electricity per month in winter is the same as playing.

It’s like Zhao Meng’s house, which is usually no one lives in, but the Jones brothers come here twice a week to stay here for two nights, but even so, the air conditioner here is on twenty-four hours a day.

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

This has nothing to do with whether or not money is money, but rather the attitude and living habits that ignore waste are simply too terrifying.

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

You should know that the temperature outside has fallen to minus four or five degrees Celsius, and with the strong north wind, the temperature is still falling 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 of them had the kind of cheerful nature and liked to make friends, so they agreed to Yang Jing's invitation very happily.

Of course, the two of them were not for nothing. When 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 when Michael came back, snowflakes began to fall in the sky.

When Yang Jing went to the Arctic last year, he had seen a knife-like blizzard and a permanent iceberg, but he dared to bet that he had never seen such a big snowflake.

In fact, the reason why the blizzards in the Arctic are so powerful is because the wind is very strong. When a strong cold wave breaks out, the wind can instantly exceed twelve levels. Not to mention people, even cars will blow over. Therefore, when the snowflakes come, the snowflakes are usually not very big, because those snowflakes are torn into ice chips by the violent cold wind before they fall.

The blizzard in the Arctic is filled with strong winds mixed with ice particles!

But the blizzard here is really what is usually called a blizzard. Because when the snowflakes start to fall, the strong wind that has been raging for most of the day disappears, and is replaced by snowflakes all over the sky.

The heavy snow of goose feathers is no longer enough to describe the size of this blizzard. It is more appropriate to describe it as a child's slap. Such a large snowflake and its terrifying density, the ground was already white in just a few minutes.

Michael entered the house with a cold air mixed with two bottles of red wine, and shouted as soon as he entered the house: "Albert, Roy, this snow is not too small. This is a good thing for the crops in the fields, but for those underprepared ranches, it is a disaster."

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

Yang Jing poured out the stuffed ribs from the pressure cooker, filtered the soup into a large bowl, and only the stewed ribs were left on the plate. Then he started to add oil to the oil pan, and heat the pan and cool the oil to stir-fry the sugar color.

After the rock sugar in the pot melted and began to bubble slightly, Yang Jing poured in the stewed pork ribs and started stir-frying. After the ribs were covered with a dark red sugar color, he put the ginger slices, large ingredients, cinnamon and other spices into the pot and continued to stir-fry. Finally, he handed over the prepared sweet and sour sauce, added a little boiled water and simmered over low heat.

After a few minutes of stuffiness, I closed the juice from high heat, and when the soup was almost finished, I started to cook the dishes - a delicious sweet and sour pork ribs.

Before making this dish, Yang Jing also packed a few dishes, fried eggs with tomatoes, sweet and sour tenderloin, pot-cold tofu and four cold dishes.

In this way, four hot, four cool and eight dishes are placed directly on the dining table, and finally a tomato and seaweed soup is added, which means that 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 was made by my mother. In the past, when my family had a farm, the family planted about five acres of grapes every year, and my mother brewed a batch of red wine every year. Although it is not as famous 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. My mother learned from my grandfather. The wine she brewed is very popular in our local area, and even Helena has people coming to buy it."

Yang Jing also took out a black jar like a magic trick and said with a smile: "Okay, today we will try your home-made red wine first, and then I have a jar of good wine here. This jar of wine has been stored in the cellar for more than 60 years. In our China, if such a jar of wine is on sale, it will probably cost about 200,000 US dollars. You two will also taste the wine I brought."

The number Yang Jing said scared the two brothers. They wanted to refuse, but in the end they opened their mouths and said nothing.

In fact, Yang Jing suddenly came to such a place, one wanted to find a secluded place to facilitate time travel, and the other was that he also wanted to have a good rest.

Since it was a vacation, it was considered to be a plan to make two friends. Moreover, the two brothers gave Yang Jing a good feeling. They were not as rude as the red necks they saw in Texas, and their eyes were on their foreheads. They looked down on the Chinese, so Yang Jing took out a jar of old wine.

The red wine brewed by the Jones brothers' mother is indeed good, but the red wine is not Yang Jing's favorite after all, so after drinking two glasses, Yang Jing decisively changed into white wine.

After drinking a glass of white wine, Yang Jing looked at the snow outside the window and said, "It seems that the 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 are guest rooms on the first floor."

Michael also smiled and said, "Roy and I stayed for dinner today, but we didn't plan to leave. It seems that the snow will not be finished in one day. Roy and I are also worried that the snow will be too heavy and will have an impact on the house here, so we stayed here just to prevent it."

"That's really a big thank you both. Come on, let's continue drinking!"

Three people were eating and drinking happily in the steaming room, while the heavy snow outside was getting heavier and heavier...
Chapter completed!