12-03-2009, 03:36 AM
Our gas heaters in summer and fall run us a minimum of $35 because of deregulation, the piper Atlanta Gas Light charges a piping fee based on your highest month of usage, throughout the whole year. About $18 -$40 a month for me. $6.00 customer service fee. The gas provider charges About $15 of gas for the water heater. There is a weird formula they use, but the customer loses.
If you go crazy in winter with the furnace, you will pay for it the rest of the year in the piping fee. You will also pay a higher piping fee based on monthly usage of gas. Atlanta Gas light does not revisit these fees often to lower them, but they raise them often.. My budget bill for the year is around $60 unless I am home a lot during winter.
De regulation basically doubled our gas bills, while the consumer has had to really conserve. You have to pay a marketer and the piper. My gas bill used to run $12 -20 for most of the year but winter.
An electric water heater, especially an on demand would make more sense now. But there is talk to deregulate electricity and it will shoot up.
If you go crazy in winter with the furnace, you will pay for it the rest of the year in the piping fee. You will also pay a higher piping fee based on monthly usage of gas. Atlanta Gas light does not revisit these fees often to lower them, but they raise them often.. My budget bill for the year is around $60 unless I am home a lot during winter.
De regulation basically doubled our gas bills, while the consumer has had to really conserve. You have to pay a marketer and the piper. My gas bill used to run $12 -20 for most of the year but winter.
An electric water heater, especially an on demand would make more sense now. But there is talk to deregulate electricity and it will shoot up.