National Grid

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

Have gas rates gone up?

I normally pay around 100 dollars for a month of natural gas in the winter and my March bill is 195.80. While March sometimes goes up slightly, in the years I have lived in this apartment it has not been over 150 (and that was that year that Natural Gas was really expensive)

My landlord told me that the gas company had been over to fix something on Monday morning so perhaps it had been leaking or the meter had been broken...

Is there any recourse for not having to pay a natural gas bill that is twice the amount you normally have to pay?
(I did check and I did pay the Feburary bill)

Therms Feb - 60 - estimated
Therms March - 139 - actual

Therms from 2008 (I don't have 2009) is 72 and 78 for Feb and March

So what happened is that the meter was wrong before and they took what they haven't been getting and added it into this month's bill.

Is this legal?

Comments

[mihmo.livejournal.com]

I am in the same boat. Please let us know if you work anything out with National Grid. My therms usage in Feb 2007 was 17 therms. This past Feb, 60 therms. Both are actual readings and not estimates. Yet, we haven't changed our habits as far as I know. I have NStar though, not National Grid. Calling up NStar did not help - she told us it was 6 degrees colder this year on average (does that account for 40+ extra therms? I think not.) January was similarly sky-high this year, with 69 therms used this year...