Who Actually Pays for $500 Gas? It's Complicated

摘要

“Perfect storm"might be cliche,but there's hardly a better way to explain eye-popping gas prices that spread like a brush fire last week across normally somnolent Oklahoma into supply basins from Texas westward into the Rockies and Southwest. But who will actually pay the lion's share of stratospheric prices-some of which exceeded $500 per million Btu at the peak of the energy crunch-as the southern tier markets scrambled to meet gas needs amid a confluence of freeze-offs,depressurized pipelines and steep competition for fuel needed to generate power and heat homes?