“The Utility I work for is considering sending out a warning to our customers about the price of Natural Gas heating for next Winter.”
Summit Natural Gas in Southern Maine is proposing a 200% (not a typo) rate increase over the next 7 years. Initially, they wanted to do it over the next 3 years, but even the moronic leftists up here took issue with that. Supposedly, there’s a lot of pressure on the PUC (Public Utilities Commission....we’re from the government, and we’re here to help) to shoot it down. We’ll see. Thankfully, that’s in the other end of the state, and doesn’t affect me. (At least until Comrade Mills starts subsidizing the industry when people can no longer afford to heat their homes).
Check out this old Jimmy Carter speech.
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jimmycartercrisisofconfidence.htm
It includes this gem:
“I’m asking Congress to mandate, to require as a matter of law, that our nation’s utility companies cut their massive use of oil by fifty percent within the next decade and switch to other fuels, especially coal, our most abundant energy source.”
and this:
“We will protect our environment. But when this nation critically needs a refinery or a pipeline, we will build it.”
The current Democratic Party policy is no coal and no building of refineries and pipelines.