Natural Gas, Unnatural price.
I keep seeing articles that warn darkly about natural gas prices being steep this winter BostonHerald.com - Business News: Natural-gas users brace for winter fuel woes.
Fine for all you sun belt types. But for people in the north and north
east this is not good news. I read somewhere, unfortunately I can't remember
where at the moment, that this sort of cost impinges on medium temperate
states the most - like the mid atlantic region. The reason being that there
is a lot of older housing stock that is not very well winterized. I can
believe this. I lived in or encountered several places around the DC
area over the years fitted out with casement windows. A single
thickness of glass panes set in to a metal frame closed by a crank
loosely onto a metal fitting: Bizarre. You don't come across windows
like that often in Massachussetts. The clocks are set back now, it's time to
put up the storm windows and weather stripping people. Storms windows:
they should be in your basement, out in the garage maybe, over in
the barn perhaps. Hey, I don't know where you left them.
One winter with steep gas prices or low temperatures and everyone
will develop the ability to determine the approximate cost of slight draft.
Fortunately it seems according to the National Weather service that it is shaping up to be a mild winter NOAA News Online NOAA ANNOUNCES 2005-2006 U.S. WINTER OUTLOOK (Story 2520). If that holds the main effects of steep natural gas prices will
be reflected primarily in higher food prices according to this reuters
article Natural gas prices take toll on U.S. agriculture.
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