Anchorage burns up record amount of energy
Published Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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Stumble It!ANCHORAGE — Anchorage residents in one day used a record amount of natural gas to keep homes warm and lights on in the long cold snap.
Curtis Thayer, spokesman for Enstar Natural Gas Co., says on Saturday customers used 234 million cubic feet of natural gas - breaking a record set one day last January.
The previous record was 227 million cubic feet.
Customers also can expect to pay more for gas.
Thayer says beginning this month, Enstar bills are increasing 22 percent. For the average house, that means $27 more per month.
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Back_To_Alaska_Someday - So, you think a short cold spell like this disproves global warming? Might want to rethink that one. I'm not saying who is or is not responsible for global warming or claiming that we can necessarily do anything about it, but to claim that it isn't happening based on a short cold snap like this or even a single cooler than average year, would demonstrate a good amount of ignorance. This is a short time period in a fairly limited area, not even a blip on the global climate radar.
Right on Jason!
"Thayer says beginning this month, Enstar bills are increasing 22 percent. For the average house, that means $27 more per month."
Typical of any energy provider. Use cheap prices to get into the market and build up your customer base, then raise the prices after the infrastructure for your product is entrenched and the cost to change energy sources is prohibitive. That is exactly what will happen in Fairbanks if the natural gas pipeline plan ever becomes a reality.
I'm wishing 22% of my monthly heating bill was a measly $27!!!
Anchorage had a cold snap?
That's just downright mean, publishing an article like this in the DNM, after the week that we've had. Throw a little salt in the wounds, why dont you? I think that I heard that it got 12 below down there. With comparitively cheap natural gas. I paid $27 extra just warming up my car in the morning and afternoon this past week.
Grumble...grumble...
Global warming my foot.
Grumble...grumble...
Next year it will be $27 more a month in Anchorage for Obama's carbon tax. Oh yeah, that transalates to $270 carbon tax in Fairbanks. Plus a dollar a gallon carbon tax for gas. But feel good about it because you are no doubt saving the planet.
good thing its a lot cheaper in anchorage and warmer too
science
grumble grumble
btw glacierles, i heard they got all the way down to -15! poor babies. maybe we should send pity cards.
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