Return to top of page Other Ideas 38. Our expert will give you a written report offering suggestions on what you can do to make energy-efficient improvements. In your gas bill, we charge you exactly what we have to pay for the gas. The price of natural gas has more than doubled in a year, so we do expect heating bills will be higher. Actually, the gas supply part of the business has been deregulated for many years.
Gas is bought and sold on a large and established free market.
As with any market, price is driven by supply and demand. Those forces cause the price to be highly variable. Right now, supply and demand is out of balance. Demand is ahead of supply. That has driven up the price.