Harry Krause wrote:
JimH wrote:

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Harry Krause wrote:

Got the gas bill for December for the house...

More than twice as much as the corresponding month of 2003.

Incredible.

What I find odd, is my neighbor's was double, mine wasn't. Mine did go
up a LOT, but not double.

Was your usage the same? Do you have peak and off peak pricing?


I am on a 2 year contract ($.92/Ccf) with a supplier that ends the end
of this month. They wanted me to renew with only another 2 year
contract option available. I refuse to lock into another contract
with the current gas prices and opted instead to go with a month to
month rate with our local gas company, but with a rate/Ccf 75% higher
than my old 2 year contract rate.

Current rates in my area:
http://www.puco.ohio.gov/Puco/Apples...cfm?doc_id=479

The plus side is that there is only one more month of really cold
temperatures before things start to warm up. The cost of natural gas
has to go down by next winter.........at least I hope it does.


I'm in a slightly worse position, in that we have our gas delivered by
truck, and pay a slight premium for that. We have a 500-gallon tank
buried in the back yard. We use the gas for rangetop cooking, to heat
hot water, in one of the fireplaces, and as a backup for one of our
heatpumps. My wife grabbed the bill, else I'd know what the per unit
price is, but I did notice it had more than doubled. Grrrr.

We've been exporting natural gas to New England a number of years from
offshore. Now there's finally talk of bringing it onto the peninsular
area and downtown Halifax.
Right now, there's no price incentive to convert from electric heat or
oil fired heat.