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On the recordJune 18, 2008
Well, it's a delight to join you. It's a historic day. Natural gas hit $13.28 a thousand cubic feet. That's almost double what it was last year at this time. What that means is Americans heating their 60 million homes this fall will pay almost twice as much to heat them as they did last year, on top of tremendous price increases to travel in their vehicles.
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John W. Peterson
Pennsylvania

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Discussing the rising costs of natural gas and its impact on American households.

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