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Part of the price of gas to your home is also the infrastructure. At least around here, that cost is based around how much gas you use. So when gas usage goes d

Part of the price of gas to your home is also the infrastructure. At least around here, that cost is based around how much gas you use. So when gas usage goes down, but the cost to maintain infrastructure stays the same, they raise those prices too. And as gas prices go up, I do expect more people to look at ways to reduce usage, whether that be electrification, or even just more efficient gas appliances. That'll be a feedback loop to lower usage, raise prices, which gets consumers to lower usage.

sokoloff 3y ago
We have similar setup here as well (and I think that makes sense). I pay about $10/mo for the meter and then the gas is split into supply (the gas) and distribution (the transport). On a random month last winter (Jan 2023), distribution was 55% of the variable part of the bill and supply 45%. Last month, supply was $0.63 of a $32.54 variable part of the bill, owing to very little usage and a supply cost of only $0.0233/therm.