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Oil prices lead to gas questions (From News Times)

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By Mark Langlois

DANBURY A state official thinks a shortage of natural gas may have a lot to do with the recent rapid escalation of heating-oil costs.

The shortage may have caused some businesses to use oil as a secondary source of energy, creating a seven-day oil supply crisis between Jan. 17 and 24 which, coupled with reduced production, sent heating oil over $2 a gallon.

State Consumer Protection Commissioner James Fleming sent a series of questions to state natural gas companies, including Yankee Gas, asking about gas use and about the company shutting off "interruptable" users in January.

"We want to know the reason why. We want to know the customers who were shut off," Fleming said. -SNIP-

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-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), February 12, 2000

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They'll come up with anything to avoid the reality of refinery problems, won't they?! Might uncover the reality of embedded systems problems...that naughty word Y2K.

-- growing (more@cynical.daily), February 12, 2000.