Texas Gas Service, something close to a monopoly in dispensing natural gas to consumers in Texas, has artificially padded the bill for natural gas to residential consumers that makes natural gas perhaps the most expensive option.
Below is a residential bill just received for a modest home in Brownsville, Texas. The home uses gas for hot water, cooking and clothes drying only. The home is heated by an electric heat pump with a backup 5KW heat strip for the coldest days. Please notice that the cost of natural gas for the month is only $28.67, but other add-on charges inflate the actual bill to $92.37, this for only 71 cubic feet of natural gas used during the month.
Please notice that the bill is over 3 times the actual cost of natural gas, which is only $28.67. Let's examine the additional charges inflating the Texas Gas Service bill.
Customer Charge: $11.25. This fee helps Texas Gas Service cover their costs of providing gas, billing, meter reading, etc. This charge seems extraordinarily high, especially with a company that can spread these charges over several million customers.
Delivery Charge: $29.51. This charge is for "delivering" the gas to the home by existing pipelines. Maintaining those pipelines is included. Notice this charge exceeds the cost of gas used. That would be like buying a sofa that costs more to deliver than the sofa itself. This is totally ludicrous, bordering on criminal!
Weather Normalization: $14.85. Probably the most sinister of all charges. You and other customers are, in effect being penalized for using less gas than normal. If the weather is warmer and customers do not need to use as much gas, they are charged for it anyway. Please remember, this specific customer does not even use gas for heating, yet is penalized because other customers are not buying enough gas for heating because of warm temperatures.
City Franchise Fee, Reimbursement for Gross Receipts Tax, City Tax: $4.53, $1.81, $1.81. This is simply a case of passing costs of doing business on to the customer.
With a virtual monopoly on gas service and the ear of politicians and regulatory agencies willing to transfer every cost and possible loss of sales back to the residential customer, it's win-win for the utility and gross injustice for the consumer.
I called the gas company and complaint why is my nat. gas consumption cost much lower that all the stupid fees they're charging. They told me the "Weather Normalization" fee is a fee impose by the city to compensate the very low tax revenue generated by cheap natural gas. And as for the "Customer Charge" I believe the city commission gave the approval raising it in exchange for creating the bogus Weather Normalization fee for the city. TAX AND SPENDERS democRATAS will always find a way to FU@K the people!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete[I called the gas company and complaint why is my nat. gas consumption cost much lower that all the stupid fees they're charging.]
ReplyDeleteThat should be "complained," not "complaint." The sentence is a mish-mash of uneducated lingo. You complained about an aspect of the bill. You don't say, "I am complaining why these tacos cost 2 for a dollar!" Do you? Ah, heck, you probably do, ya crazy guy.
Rey
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Delete[ESE Rey what kind of JOTO are you with 2 last names like all the married bitches?]
DeleteCorrect way to frame that sentence: "Ese, Rey. What kind of homo are you with two last names, like all the married bitches?"
Write like that and people may start thinking you're an educated BABOSO.
Rey
It seems we get padded with additional fees everywhere, water + waste water fees, utb with recreational +bldg fees) when will all these stop?
ReplyDeleteAs long as DUMBOCRATS are in control it will get WORST!
DeletePlease note Republicans control all aspects of State government, including the regulatory bodies that impose these various fees. The gas company may want to point consumers to the local government but the fact is the local government would not be able to charge anything a regulated utility, like the gas service, imposes without authorization from the State regulatory entities. You should also note the natural gas industry in Texas gives political donations overwhelmingly to Republican candidates/officials. These same natural gas companies were found to have been the biggest cause of the 2021 power outages due to frozen distribution facilities. And they have yet to complete weatherization of those distribution facilities, making us all vulnerable to another 2021 disaster if we have an extended cold snap. I think the natural gas companies motto is, "Pay the politicians, charge the consumers."
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