[Lauretij2]

No wonder my damn electric bill went up to $215 from $180 last month. Most of DFW area is gas..

I sure with they'd add on to Commanche Peak.

[mewzilla]

Whoa. Better stock up on the thermal unmentionables.

[Paleo Conservative]

I sure hope this will help sell some gas drilling prospects.

[RightWhale]

Natural gas is at $11 or $12 now compared to $6 last year. An increase of 70% seems to be a done deal, and more.

[SoDak]

Geez, it already costs a fortune to heat my place. I left work a little early today to meet with a guy who's installing a new furnace for me this fall. Should have ordered a woodburner instead.

[Myrddin]

Time to start splitting some more wood. My gas bill runs around $6 per month in summer and peaks at $182 in January. My wood burning stove is at the ready to cover those subzero nights.

[snowsislander]

I'm trying to remember the reasons that were adduced for switching to natural gas, but I am pretty sure that one of the ones was that it was inexpensive. It looks like that reason can be stricken from the list if we are going to see another 70% hike in natural gas prices.

[TheBattman]

Hundreds of Natural Gas wells all over the country that are either capped, or just un-used. NW Arkansas is just one example that I am familiar with. There is less excuse for a price jump of natural gas than there is for a gasoline price jump.

[MikefromOhio]

I just KNEW buying a house that has 2 fireplaces and a woodburning stove was a good idea :)

[Graymatter]

I rarely use the vernacular, but when I saw the leap in gas heat costs, the winter before last, I said screw this. Sealed off a few rooms and spent the winter upstairs in the sunniest, warmest rooms, using only electric space heaters last winter. Cut the heating bill in half and had a lot of fun too. We have down comforters, and didn't even need electric blankets---thirty seconds with a hair dryer under the comforter will make a bed very toasty all night long.
Not everybody can do it. I'm a stay-at-home mom, and you need to keep an eye on heaters. But if you can, try it. We had such a blast, we're looking forward to winter now, and we're in Pennsylvania.

[Ribeye]

We don't have gas at all and no HVAC...(our house is uber-rustic)... ;-)

I like the cold but the wife and kids do not. Electric heaters cost WAY too much so I invested in a good wood burning stove that sits on the hearth and exhausts through the firepalce chimney. Two cords of wood for $300.00 (wood is expensive here) lasts all winter. Super efficient heat AND the wood lasts forever... WAY longer than a fireplace, it'll burn all night.

Keeps the kids rooms comfy enough and the den downright toasty.

[IronJack]

Softening us up for the next round of "Let's Make an Energy Deal."

[andysandmikesmom]

Well, a few months ago, we just had several very large trees taken down on our property, and they have been sitting around, in a huge stack, seasoning for use...our fireplace will get more use than usual, as I now see....I hate to pay huge gas heating bills, so more frequent use of the fireplace, wearing long johns, and piling up with lots of cozy blankets at night will be the routine here...

Tho, luckily I live in Western Washington, and our climate is a temperate one, even in the winter months...we dont get the sub zero temps that we used to live through when we lived in Chicago years ago...so we will suffer less than people in parts of the country that get freezing temps in the winter...

[M. Espinola]

Natural Gas for October's contract is @ 11.442, up 0.095

Natural Gas chart

Prices are at record levels now and Autumn has not even begun. I am not sure what homeowners in the Northeast corridor are going to do if confronted with a bitter cold, upcoming winter.

Today the U.S. has more than 280,000 miles of pipeline, serving about 60 million consumers, according to the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.

(There is an additional natural gas pipeline from Québec, through New Hampshire down to Mass.)

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