Last time I looked, GA has about the highest natural gas prices in the U.S. aside from Hawaii. An additional problem is the cost adjustments. In summer our actual gas usage may be $6/mo, with a $36 add-on charge. Not sure a heat pump wouldn’t be cheaper overall, but the wife loves the heat from our natural gas furnace.
Georgia has that built-in cost rate from Atlanta Gaslight, regardless of bill. It’s for actually supplying the gas, maintaining lines, meters, etc. The other costs are from the various middlemen suppliers, many out-of-state to do billing etc. Most of them never even remotely touch the gas delivered.
I was against the cost-cutting, monopoly breaking transition to ‘competitive suppliers’ in the first place.