Why Were California's Natural Gas Prices Almost 6x Other Parts of US?

At Mark Zinman’s Moraga home, his gas bill just ignited change.

“When I got that bill I was a little alarmed,” he said, “So, I tried turning down the thermostat, using less gas.”

December’s PG&E bill was $575; of that, $400 was for gas. So, Mark’s furnace got a new setting. 

“I was setting it at 68 or 69 degrees,” he said. “When that bill came in for $575, I set it back to 66… or 65 when we sleep at night.” He expected that conservation to pay off in January. It didn’t.

“The next bill came, and we used less, but it was still $575. And it was

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