Trump executive order leads to $100 energy bill hike for hundreds in Alabama

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74. Their (CPI) number for the 12 months ending January 31: 4.9%. My gas usage is way down ...

Back to the CPI (Consumer Price Index). Here's the last 7 monthly changes for "Utility (piped) gas service"
-0.5%   -1.6%   0.7%   0.5%   0.5%   2.8%   1.8%
These are the changes from the previous month, not year-over-year figures.

For the year (January 2024 to January 2025), 4.9%

From Table A
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

I don't know what mine was in January 2024, I'd have to dig. Actually my bill has been super-duper low since my furnace stopped working properly around December 3. My January usage was just 22 therms. The temperature indoors reached a low of 50.3 degrees. Right now: 57.0 degrees. I'm dressed up indoors like I would if I was to spend a long time outside. I have a heating pad on my lap, and am wearing mittens (with the finger tips cut off) as I type this. Today outside is warm and pleasant, highs in mid 20's, compared to what we've just endured, and will endure again soon (highs well below zero, some days the highs are double-digits below zero) for the next 8 days or so.

https://weather.com/weather/hourbyhour/l/24125fb65c1c33be8d607e459140923bee2e248e5b92b9e28cd2c3e82df0f0ff

(Minneapolis. Centerpoint Energy, Ruud furnace)

I'm so pissed off that the furnace has had 5 breakdowns in the past 10 years -- 2 igniters and 2 flame sensors having to be replaced, and the problem now I think is the flame sensor again. So I say f'it, I'll wait until my usual spring tune-up time to fix it. I will just have to endure the next 10 days or so, and I think that will be it as far as being uncomfortable at times inside, like when it's 54 or below inside.