I really hope you can come up with the money to pay this bill, I wish I could help but I am broke. I will give you some advice tho. one of my friends was having problems with his electric furnace and it was only operating at half potiential, causing $250 electric bills, make shure your filters are clean, and make shure it is functioning correctly, also you can buy a programable thermostat you can program the heat to shut down or just keep the house warm enough to keep water flowing. that would cut down on alot of energy use.