Vallarta Blog

How many of you are seeing huge increases in your electric bill. Ours has more than doubled, as have those of friends that we’ve chatted with. We have had the dubious distinction of being placed in the DAC tariff category.

CFE, the Mexican Electric Company calls this the Domésticas de Alto Consumo. I call it the Domestico Alto de una Cueva, or Living Higher than in a cave.

We are pretty conscientious about turning off our lights, cook with gas, heat our water with gas, and we don’t use air-conditioning much at all since the rates were so high.

We do use our computer, and watch occasional TV, and, yes, we are guilty of converting from and ice chest to a refrigerator. (I did give up my electric razor though.) Oh, yea, we even use those energy-efficient light bulbs.

What does CFE expect from us? I’m thinking about buying hillside property. Perhaps remote enough, I can even get it cheap enough with a view of the city lights, a nice place to build our cave and enjoy looking at the skyscrapers lights go out one by one.

When the basic expenses of living become so high here, will the peso suffer another hit for inflation? In the meantime, I’m investing in hillside property.

source: Dan Russel