“PNM won’t be ready to project what this winter’s bills will be until August, but they will be ‘significantly higher’.”
The Albuquerque Journal quoting PNM spokesperson Susan Sponar. PNM is New Mexico’s largest gas and electric provider. Your mileage may differ, but I’m thinking heating bills this coming winter are going to be scarier than Dick Cheney’s to-do list.
Thanks to jfleck at inkstain for the pointer.
Oh, and here’s another painful line, as if we didn’t know. This from CNN Money.
“Record gas and higher food prices drove inflation to the biggest annual jump since 1991 and fanned fears about growing pressures on consumers.”
The spoke was on the tv news the other day. The anchor was talking 20%, the spoke was trying to sell some concept of how the costs would be spread over different seasons of utility use (“summer’s more expensive”, if I remember correctly).
I have a feeling that first heating bill of the winter season is going to be like an involuntary snort of ice-cold vodka.