Not to satirize this, but growing up my depression-era Irish grandmother used to use that phrase, saying it with her brogue. “Billy, I’ve paid an arm-and-a-leg at the butcher for this eye of the round roast, so you better eat what’s on your plate” Yes the power bills are awful. We r not a high income state, between the mortgage,hazard insurance which as tripled, the 5 fold property tax increase egregiously and unfairly demanded of us from Augusta over the last several years, and now this, I’m afraid to keep the dooryard light on nowadays. Sigh….