[HN Gopher] Natural gas customers in Texas get stuck with $3.4B ...
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       Natural gas customers in Texas get stuck with $3.4B cold-snap
       surcharge
        
       Author : kc0bfv
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2021-11-13 15:06 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | peter303 wrote:
       | I wonder who made a fortune from the Feb 2021 price surge? Spot
       | market contracts have a counter party who bets prices will go the
       | other way.
        
       | kc0bfv wrote:
       | A bit of a follow on from an earlier article:
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       | Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout,
       | blamed wind anyway
       | 
       | https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/texas-gov-knew-o...
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27234151
        
       | peter303 wrote:
       | Colorado utilities are trying to pass on a half billion dollar
       | gas price surcharge from the same week as the Texas disaster.
        
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