<prompt> Human: So I live in Massachusetts with four other people and last month I received an extremely high electricity bill 1400 which includes our heat. Our previous electricity bill was 800 and we were all shocked when we saw the bill. When we asked our landlord about it he contact the company because he had never seen a bill this high before for this particular house. The response he got was that it was the coldest month in Massachusetts which is why the bill is so high. But I dont believe a 5 degree change would make our bill jump nearly 2x as much. Should we personally call the electricity company ourselves because some of us fear that our landlord could be hiding some things from us our fridge broke so we had to use a extremely old one in the garage for 2-3 weeks.Also, we found out the price of a kilowatt jumped from 8.8 cents to 14.2 cents in the beginning of January as well. We were never told of this spike before. The bill of 800 was for January and the bill of 1400 is for February.Is there anything we can do about this bill or are we stuck with it?  <response>: Given the large rate increase this looks exactly correct. Electric heat is expensive. 