I'm surprised there's not an inflation thread yet
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UPDATED: Thursday, June 11, 2026 17:04
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Er.no. 3.5¢ (pennies) per therm.
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How can that be right? $0.035 per therm is an AMAZING deal.
I have no idea how you got a $480 bill for your gas then.
I think there's some missing information here.
I haven't been factoring in the "base costs", which are the same every month no matter how much you use, but they're about $45. The other $56 or so of my bill was the 87 therms that I used.
If I were only paying $0.035 per therm, my bill this month would have only been $48 instead of $101.
But no, that's a lie. If my costs were only $0.035 per therm, I'd have had the heat up to 80 degrees all month with the furnace running 24/7 and who cares what the cost was.
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Oh shit...
I'm sorry, Sigs. You ARE paying $3.50 per therm.
Why natural gas prices — and bills — are soaring in Southern California
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-01-09/why-natural-gas-pric
es-and-bills-are-soaring-in-southern-california
Archive link to avoid paywall: https://archive.ph/U59KM
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The price for what’s called “core procurement” that goes to residential and small commercial customers is set at the start of each month. The price soared to $3.45 per therm (a unit of natural gas) on Jan. 1 from $1.05 in December. In January 2022, it was 84 cents.
I am so, so sorry.
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Quote:Not as sorry as we are!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh shit...
I'm sorry, Sigs. You ARE paying $3.50 per therm.
Why natural gas prices — and bills — are soaring in Southern California
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-01-09/why-natural-gas-pric
es-and-bills-are-soaring-in-southern-california
Archive link to avoid paywall: https://archive.ph/U59KMQuote:
The price for what’s called “core procurement” that goes to residential and small commercial customers is set at the start of each month. The price soared to $3.45 per therm (a unit of natural gas) on Jan. 1 from $1.05 in December. In January 2022, it was 84 cents.
I am so, so sorry.
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Yeah. That's just flat out robbery.
What's amazing to me, other than the current price, is that you were actually paying less than my dad in the south-Chicago suburbs was the month before. I think at $0.84 last year you were paying about the same. Illinois is terrible too, but I never thought they'd be paying more than you were during any of this.
I hope this gets fixed for you. Soon.
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Alexander Mercouris of The Duran was commenting a few months ago about gas and energy prices in Britain. They had the same 5X increase in prices. Not only was it a shock to the average Brit, it was devastating for businesses of all sizes. Pubs, that famous British institution and culture, closed down by the thousands, as did many small and medium-sized businesses like restaurants, bakeries, forges etc. Frozen pipes caused infrastructural damage. IIRC the British government started splashing money around to subsidize heating costs for residents, but businesses remain closed.
If this is a one-off, it's survivable. If this is long-term it'll be the death knell for a lot of businesses here.
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I'd still really like for you to get out of California.
You're (thankfully) the only person I know who lives there. You make it hard for me to wish that an earthquake will come and finally swallow the entire state into the ocean.
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Quote:This hit a peak in 2021, not 2022:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Alexander Mercouris of The Duran was commenting a few months ago about gas and energy prices in Britain. They had the same 5X increase in prices. Not only was it a shock to the average Brit, it was devastating for businesses of all sizes. Pubs, that famous British institution and culture, closed down by the thousands, as did many small and medium-sized businesses like restaurants, bakeries, forges etc. Frozen pipes caused infrastructural damage. IIRC the British government started splashing money around to subsidize heating costs for residents, but businesses remain closed.
If this is a one-off, it's survivable. If this is long-term it'll be the death knell for a lot of businesses here.
12 October 2021 - Natural gas prices have seen the biggest increase, with European and Asian benchmark prices hitting an all-time record last week – around ten times their level a year ago. US month-ahead natural gas prices have more than tripled since October 2020 to reach their highest level since 2008. International coal prices are around five times their level a year ago, and coal power plants in China and India, the world’s two largest coal consumers, have very low stocks ahead of the winter season.
Investments in oil and natural gas have declined in recent years as a result of two commodity price collapses – in 2014-15 and in 2020. This has made supply more vulnerable to the sorts of exceptional circumstances that we see today. At the same time, governments have not been pursuing strong enough policies to scale up clean energy sources and technologies to fill the gap.
Against this backdrop, both coal and natural gas demand recorded strong gains across key markets in the first half of 2021 as the global economy rebounded. Initial estimates suggest that natural gas and coal consumption in these key markets increased by 8% and 11% respectively . . .
12 October 2021 - What is behind soaring energy prices and what happens next?
https://www.iea.org/commentaries/what-is-behind-soaring-energy-prices-
and-what-happens-next
It is very lovely for natural gas producers, back in 2021, when they could get away with a 1,000% price increase while demand had only increased by 8%. The producers laughed all the way to the bank, where they emptied dump truckloads of money paid by suckers who will NEVER understand who raised prices (hint: it is NOT government).
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Incorrect. Joe Biden*, his administration and state level Democrats caused all of these inflationary problems by fucking up the world chain of events and bringing the worldwide 6-sigma machine to its knees. And by its very nature, there is no contingency plan for 6-sigma.
EVERYTHING that is a problem right now lands squarely on US Democrats and other world leaders who followed them down into the abyss.
Fuck Joe Biden*. Fuck Democrats.
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Quote:These are the prices in Europe in the form of graph. Take note that the first peaks are in 2021. Biden had zero control over those prices (remember, it is Europe) but the oil/gas companies had complete control.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Incorrect. Joe Biden*, his administration and state level Democrats caused all of these inflationary problems by fucking up the world chain of events and bringing the worldwide 6-sigma machine to its knees. And by its very nature, there is no contingency plan for 6-sigma.
EVERYTHING that is a problem right now lands squarely on US Democrats and other world leaders who followed them down into the abyss.
Fuck Joe Biden*. Fuck Democrats.
Look at the peak prices (there are several peaks):
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Znk8
Global price of Natural gas, EU
U.S. Dollars per Million Metric British Thermal Unit
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:Hahahaha!!!!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'd still really like for you to get out of California.
You're (thankfully) the only person I know who lives there. You make it hard for me to wish that an earthquake will come and finally swallow the entire state into the ocean.
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