a 200kw stereo?

By anders pearson 17 Jul 2001

apparently cheney’s power bill is $186,000 [nytimes article: use ‘cipherpunk’ as username/password].

<p>what the <em>fuck</em> is he doing?! </p>

<p>i cannot understand how a 33-room mansion could possibly draw that much power. that&#8217;s almost $6000 per room. the power bill for my 3 bedroom apartment last month was under $50 (that would extrapolate to $600/year). so cheney&#8217;s house, on a per-room basis, is using 10 times more power than my apartment. and we have a growing collection of computers and electronics that are on pretty constantly.</p>

<p>one person i was talking to suggested that the power consumption was due to cheney&#8217;s pacemaker and frequent need for defibrillators (those things use a fair amount of juice). someone else suggested that cheney&#8217;s just growing lots of pot and it&#8217;s all for the lamps in the closets.</p>

<p>i think he&#8217;s probably just got a killer 200kw stereo that he keeps blasting gangsta rap 24/7.</p>