US woman hit with shocking $284 billion energy bill
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Feel like you’re overpaying on energy bills?
How about Mary Horomanski from Erie, Pennsylvania, who was hit with an electricity charge of more than $284 billion (£212bn).
Luckily for her the bill was a mistake but it still provided quite the shock – it said she had to pay the entire amount by November 2018, with a first payment of $28,176 (£21,017) due later in December.
Speaking to the Erie Times-News, she said: “My eyes just about popped out of my head.
“We had put up Christmas lights and I wondered if we had put them up wrong.”
The electricity provider later said the actual amount owed was a much more manageable $284.46 (£212).
A company’s spokesman said it did not know how the error had occurred.
Article source: http://www.energylivenews.com/2017/12/27/us-woman-hit-with-shocking-284-billion-energy-bill/
