🚀 go-pugleaf

anonymous wrote:
> 
> I heard that NJ Public Utilities Commission had approved an increase in
> rates for gas, but this is ridiculous.  I used approximately the same amount
> of gas last year for this past month that I did this year.  I'm not a heat
> hog and
> usually keep the thermostat below 70.  I have 3 zone house and shut off the
> zones that are not in use when appropriate.  Last (heating) year my entire
> gas and electric
> bill did not exceed $150 a month in any month, and about $50 of that was
> for electricity.
> 
> Today, I got a bill for $205.52 for gas and $55.57 for electricity.  Ouch.
> Was the rate increase a 100% one so that we now have to pay twice as much
> for gas???? It's outrageous.  And don't let anyone tell you that we are
> running
> out of natural gas.  There is enough natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico for
> generations.
> 
> Back to the bill.  Here is how the gas bill breaks down:
> 
> Service charge                                                    $5.79
> Transportation Charge                                       $50.29
> Balancing Charge (what????)                             $17.96
> 
> OK, that $74.04 and they haven't even started charging me for the gas yet.
> 
> Commodity Charge (is that for the gas?)            $144.64
> Balancing credit (big of them)                         -      13.16
> 
> OK, that $131.46 for the gas.  Together it all makes $205.52.
> 
> So they managed to double my fuel bill.  Double!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> Anybody want to join the revolution.  Why is this necessary?  The gas
> didn't go away and they didn't have to lay any new pipeline.  The
> only difference is that we have a president elect who is owned by
> the oil industry.  This means is that the price of natural gas is being
> pushed up to make oil competitive and therefore the oil people can
> sell more of it, probably at higher prices.
> 
> How on earth are people going to be able to pay twice as much
> as before to heat their homes?  This is a really bad situation.  There
> is going to be a lot of hardship because of this doubling of gas
> costs.

The Clinton Administration was working out a solution. Now
things may get worse because George Bush is an oil man. 
Expect to pay much, much more in the coming months/years.

-Father McClay