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Article: Rising energy costs will make winter warmth more pricey
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- October 19, 2008
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The Old Farmer's Almanac predicts a colder, wetter winter in West
Virginia than we've seen in some time. Temperatures, it says, may be
2 degrees colder than usual. Parts of the state could see snow by
Thanksgiving, with more to follow, and maybe we'll even have a white
Christmas.
While a season of snow makes for pretty postcards, days off for
the kids and nice holiday memories, it also means cold weather and
anxiety about utility bills.
While crude oil and natural gas prices, after spiking over the
summer, have begun to return to the levels they were at the
beginning of 2008, there is no guessing what those markets will do
in the coming months.
The trend, however, indicates utility prices ...