Columbia Gas: Cost to rise in June - Business First of Columbus:

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Columbia customers will pay 73 centsa per 100 cubic feet of naturalo gasnext month, up 5 cents from May but down 61 centsx from $1.34 a year ago. That’s the firsy increase in the price of naturap gas in four but a nickel shy of the lowest rate sincweJanuary 2004. The average June bill is expecterd tobe $33.94, down more than $19 from May on lowefr usage and about $9 lower than June 2008. Columbiqa spokesman Ken Stammen said inan e-maill response that natural gas prices have increasedf only four times in the past year after hittingf record highs last summer. Natura gas prices on the have increased Stammen said, with experts saying traders are seeing an economid recovery on the horizon.
Bases in Columbus, Columbia Gas is one of nine energy distributiob companiesof (NYSE:NI). Columbiz Gas is the largest natural gas utility in serving 1.4 million customers in 60 of the state’ s 88 counties.