Have you noticed your natural gas bill hasn't when down that much for the summer like it used to?

[NNN0LHI]

I have. Its still close to a hundred dollars a month without needing heat. Used to be 25 or 30 bucks a month through the summer here a couple of years ago. It was so little the gas company would bill only every other month through the summer.

http://daily-journal.com/archives/dj/display.php?id=423926

<snip>That's because the cost for natural gas spiked a whopping 81 percent since July 2007, and still could continue to increase by another 52 percent, according to the Energy Information Administration, the federal government's Web site for energy statistics. Natural gas heats 98 percent of households in Illinois, Anderson said.

Home heating bills are projected to more than double this winter; customers on Nicor's budget plan already have seen significant increases, Anderson said.

[madeline_con]

1. No, we had a credit, owed $O, then a $19.00 bill. n/t

[Bethesda Home]

2. NO

Maybe you should look for a leak or a thief.

[NNN0LHI]

3. Did you read the article? Cost of gas went up 81% in the past 12 months alone

Think I know who the thief is.

Don

[ellie]

4. Actually,

I had a credit this month. I dread the winter though. I need to get new storm windows on before the cold weather.

[exothermic]

5. No it was the same as the last 9 June bills.

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[Blue Diadem]

6. This is our first summer with a front loading HE washer,

It's really made a difference in our gas consumption. Clothes come out dryer so it doesn't take the dryer very long and the washer uses much less hot water too. Summer months we only use gas for drying clothes and heating water and last year it reached $50-$60 a month. Thing is..our gas bill has remained about what it was last year, even though now we're using less than 1/2 the gas.

Do you cook with gas?

The people here saying they received credit most likely are on the budget plans and overpaid for the season which is covering their bills for summer months. We've had that happen before.

Our bill began showing a graph of our gas usage for the previous 12 months. I like that, it gives me the ability to see what I used last June as compared to this June. We're consuming way less but our gas bills sure haven't gone down at all.

[Nickster]

7. I was just talking about that yesterday. Then I checked the per therm cost of gas for the summer

months and noticed that it is now costing more per therm during the summer than it did during last winter. Another case where the normal patterns have been upturned, you know, price goes down because the demand goes down dramatically during the summer? Now the demand goes down and the price goes waayyyyyy up.

[carlyhippy]

8. ours went down

but our house is all electric, except for the floor heat and the furnace. It was 11.00 and we haven't used any gas at all. OMG I shudder to think of this winter, if it is going up as much as they project, because it gets 20 below degrees and lower in the winter for like 2 months, then below freezing for another 2-3 months at night. We will have to lower the thermostat once again to below 60 I guess and wear sweatsuits to bed. This sucks.

Like the price of gas, the bill soars overnight. 11.00 in the summer to 300.00 in the winter.