[DB]

So you're saying that natural gas costs are 3.4 cents a kilowatt-hour?

Why am I paying about 12+ cents a kilowatt-hour?

[FreedomPoster]

That's a fuel cost only. You have to build, finance, and maintain a powerplant to burn the gas, a transmission and distribution system to get the electricity to your house, pay for overhead, etc. Also, as a residential customer, you're locked in, unlike many large industrial customers, so you don't exactly get the best rate.

[Boot Hill]

Because the stockholders would be offended if the power company gave away the power with out profit.

--Boot Hill

[logic]

Let's see, Distribution network, Billing systems, CEO salaries.......