Get ready!!

[borlis]

I got my gas bill today and as of next month my budgeted rate will go up from $83 to $120 a month. I don't even have my heat on yet!! As a comparison, my budgeted amount last winter was $96.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. People will freeze to death this winter

[SoCalDem]

2. Thank goodness i always double my "level pay" plan

and always have extra coming back to me in the settlement month.. At least I won;t have to dig deeper..I just won't be getting any back this year:(

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. Our bill went up 30% this month compared to last year at this same time.

This is going to be BAD.

[karlrschneider]

4. Yikes! I "gambled" some by locking in my rate for a year at $8.39 per

dekatherm just the other day...that's about 30% over what the last bill was but the predictions are that it'll go up to about 70%. I'm in Oklahoma which ain't as cold as Illinois usually (I was born in Centralia) but we can get some brutal winters from time to time.

[XOKCowboy]

5. It's Clinton's fault

Isn't it always?

Seriously though it's a looming national crisis and all we'll hear is that "no one could have forseen" that people wouldn't have enough money to heat their homes. Or that it's their fault for not planning on the crisis and putting away extra money. When will people wake up and realize that this government doesn't care about average people.

[Shine]

6. Yeah, it's gonna be ugly next year. ka-ching, ka-ching...

Good thing we're getting new double-paned windows installed next month.

Expensive, but hopefully worth it, in the long run...


Shine