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August 29, 2009

Natural-gas shopping

Liz Kay writes about the continuing plunge in natural gas prices and quotes experts who suggest you should lock in with a long-term natural gas contract instead of using BGE's standard offering, in which the gas price more or less floats with the market from month to month. I'm skeptical; the offerings don't let you lock in for more than two years, and the prices aren't that great. Here is my earlier post on this.

But in any event here are links to the natural gas vendors she mentioned. BGE will continue to deliver the gas through its pipes and charge a delivery fee, no matter who your supplier is. For a lot more on this, scroll down to the "Categories" box on the right and click on "BGE/electricity."

Washington Gas Energy Services
BGE Home (different from plain old BGE.)
Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative

Posted by Jay Hancock at 10:40 AM | | Comments (3)
Categories: BGE/electricity
        

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WGES's floating rate per therm is several cents lower than BGE's & has been for quite a while.

Compared to propane, natural gas is more convenient and has a lot of advantages. Much more with its plunging price, more and more people will go for natural gas.

"How is it the bank's fault that someone making $4,700 attempted to borrow $1.3 million..."

Because the bank is the gatekeeper in the transaction (or is supposed to be).

A responsible landlord would have verified income of the prospective tenant before they would sign Mr Burrow to a house lease... and wouldn't have done one for him at more than $1500... let alone $9100.

Do you understand now?

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About Jay Hancock
Jay Hancock has been a financial columnist for The Baltimore Sun since 2001. He has also been The Baltimore Sun's diplomatic correspondent in Washington and its chief economics writer. Before moving to Baltimore in 1994 he worked for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk and The Daily Press of Newport News.

His columns appear Tuesdays and Sundays.
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