Natural gas prices are low, but your monthly gas bill is up. Here’s why.

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1. Tldr: wholesale gas price is passed directly to the consumer, but your bill is wholesale cost + transportation/pipes. The grid operator can only profit off of maintaining/replacing/upgrading the pipes. Pipes are old in many places and need to be fixed or upgraded so the 2nd part of your bill goes up. What we should do is switch to electric heating and cooking options. Maintaining pipelines that will be unused in 20 years is a bad long term investment by the state governments.

2. Capitalism? Am I close?

3. Incorrect statement in the article, “Natural gas remains the cheapest way to heat a home in the winter.” Not true.
   Groundsource heat pump is cheaper. It’s an all electric system that also includes air conditioning and water heating. It’s also more quiet.
   When building a new house if a heat pump is used then the house doesn’t need a gas line at all.
   If combined with a solar system on net metering there is no electric bill either.

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