Quote Originally Posted by wishniwasfishn View Post
Did everyone see todays paper, seems as though LG&E is going to raise our heating bills 24%, aint it great that with this terrible economy, people losing their jobs, companies closing, everyone struggling just to pay their normal bills, LG&E is going to screw us again. I can see a small increase, but 24% is nothing but bull%$&^, I dont know how they can justify such an large increase. I really feel sorry for the people on fixed income, I dont know how a lot of them are going to do it, and I am sure some of them wont, they just wont turn their heat on, and freeze to death. I live in Mt. Washington, so I only have gas service from them, but I am seriously considering changing everything to electric, that way I dont have to pay them a penny. Great that a local company with a monopoly on gas gets to raise their price any time they want to, and there is nothing we can do about it. Sorry for the rant, just think its bull#$&#.
I think their excuse was they purchased the natural gas when oil was at it's highest price this summer. But I gurantee you that when they pruchase more natural gas at the low price that we have now, they won't lower the price 24%. It's kind of like the grocery store prices. They went up when diesel was so expensive but since it's dropped the grocery prices remain the same. And I gurantee you when the price of oil goes back up they'll raise the prices again without ever lowering them.