Well, they do say that everything is insanely overpriced in California, Greg.
We have the same thing here; total electric costs about half of what using gas or propane costs. My house is also like you indicated, using well water, septic, etc. It's not so much the cost for electricity, but the lack of the need for gas or water/sewer cost. We have a few bumps during the extremely cold or hot swings in temperatures, but the average is still $200.00 for ALL utilities.
We are seeing a lot of conversions back to electric heat pump being done here where people made propane/NG conversions a few years ago. Propane costs as much as super unleaded gasoline! NG prices in the same ballpark and are too unstable.
My neighbor put in a pool at the end of the season last summer. They included a propane heater. After 1.5 months and $750.00 for propane, they shut it off and decided to let Mother Nature heat it.
