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Las Vegas-Area Natural Gas Rates to Increase 5.5 Percent.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2004
By John G. Edwards, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 29--The average residential customers using 5,800 cubic feet of natural gas per month will see their monthly bill jump $2.76 to $49.34 starting Sunday.
The Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday voted 2-0 to approve a 5.5 percent interim increase in Southwest Gas Corp. rates while the agency considers a larger request intended to offset increased natural gas prices. PUC Chairman Don Soderberg was ill and didn't attend the meeting, but he wrote the draft order calling for approval of the rate increase.
Roger Buehrer, a spokesman for Southwest Gas, said it was probably better to raise rates now, rather than wait and allow interest costs to add to a...
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