My natural gas bill used to be $16 before I used a single ccf, now it's over $20. This winter I'm going to keep the heat at 60. 1500 square foot house. My winter heating bill maxed out at like 60, I'm looking at double that this winter.

Lol, over here in Europe natgas/electricity has went completely bananas.

In the UK the average home will be paying over $400/month for natgas and electricity as of October.

Looking at prices to fix for 12 months right now, I saw Octopus energy offering:

Electricity: 74p/kWh (~91c/kWh)

Gas: 18p/kWh (22c/kWh, or i think 6.5c/ccf?)

For context I was on a 24 month fixed rate last year for 11p/kWh for electricity - so a 600%+ increase in the space of a year.

Do you not have base charges? I'm paying ~$50 a month even if I use no gas.

No, I do not.

Yeah, $16-$20 is not huge. % wise sure but natural gas in the US is insanely cheap.

$60 for a month of heat for a 1500 sqft home is insanely cheap. If you had oil you'd be looking at north of $200.

It’s costs me about $100-$160 a month in the winter for gas to heat my home in the Deep South. My area is upgrading gas lines and now the base surcharge is $35. However that’s not a forever charge.

My price per therm has more than doubled when I renewed this year. That won’t mean my bill doubled as there about $40 or so in fixed costs before gas use is accounted for.

Edited winter numbers above:

December: $100

January: $120*

February: $160

March: $90

*out of town for one week.

To make you feel a little bit better:

For similar size house in energy-efficient building tech we pay around 300$ per winter month for heating.

And its “cheap” because house is well isolated. (EU)

Yes I do feel better. By energy efficient do you mean newer construction? I assume it wouldn’t be old stone construction (EU/UK old world stuff) that would be sucking up heat in winter.

Its a new building from 2020.

Thats how much prices went up in EU.

How big is your house? That is an insane price to pay. I owned a home in vermont and heated with gas and paid around that.

Insulation, construction style, and usage makes a gigantic difference. Two houses of the same size right next to each other could be using 400% different amounts of energy.

Around 2,200sqft but that doesn’t include a half basement (heated) and half garage (unheated but gets some heat). Updating my numbers above $170 was an exception.

gasoline

Who refers to buying gasoline as their "gas bill" ??? lol? You don't get billed for gas.. confusing statements.

Anyway, gasoline is going way down.

I.e. "petrol" for the rest of us. :)

Or "benzin" :)