Natural gas bills are expected to drop significantly in February, but will still be higher than this time last year.
Monday demanded a federal investigation into rising natural gas prices in western states, after many families across the state saw their gas bills double — or more — in the month of January.
In a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the group responsible for regulating wholesale natural gas, Newsom asked the agency to "focus its investigatory resources on assessing whether market manipulation, anticompetitive behavior, or other anomalous activities are driving these ongoing elevated prices in the western gas markets."
Many SoCalGas customers saw a massive bill in January, in many cases double the previous year. That's because, the company said, of increasing wholesale prices for natural gas. Increased prices for wholesale gas are then passed on to consumers in their monthly utility bills. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, this year's price spike was caused by a number of things.
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