Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Washington Gas announced today that its customers should prepare for a 10 to 20 percent increase in heating bills over last winter’s
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc. (WGES), a leading competitive supplier of electricity and natural gas to the mid-Atlantic region, is pleased to announce
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings has affirmed the credit ratings of Washington Gas Light Co. (WG) and WGL Holdings, Inc. (WGL) as follows:
Jesus is Lord, A Worshipping Christ (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
WASHINGTON – Gas prices might actually be dropping at the pump, but higher energy prices are pushing food costs through the roof, according to the Siena Research Institute. That’s one more reason to keep Washington’s feet to the fire on repealing oil-drilling bans, says WND Editor Joseph Farah, who stepped outside his comfort zone as a [...]
Lifelike Pundits (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Got my first gas bill from Washington Gas for April and June: $535.00. I don't wash my dishes with a high temp wash. I shower once a day. And I seldom bake. Oh, and I don't run the heater in the middle of summer. But Washington Gas, the only natural gas provider wants me to pay a $335 deposit and $100 for April and $100 for June based February and March! My monthly bill in the townhouse was $37.00...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Washington - Gas prices are above $4 a gallon. Wages aren't keeping up with the rising cost of food, housing and just about everything else. And companies from coast to coast have eliminated hundreds of thousands of jobs in the last six months.
Get There (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Columbia Pike is shut down both directions between Frederick and Jefferson streets in Arlington, and is likely to stay that way into the afternoon rush. An 8-inch utility line broke underneath the pike and Washington Gas is trying to fix it. The Arlington fire department is at the scene, too....Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On Thursday, July 10, Washington Gas Chairman and CEO James H. DeGraffenreidt will be joined by Carl T. Johnson, U.S. Department of Transportation Administrator
Right Mind (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
From yesterday’s Spokesman Review . Watch that last line! The gasoline tax is going up a penny-and-a-half to 37.5 cents a gallon in Washington . A state Department of Licensing spokesman, Brad Benfield, says today's hike is the last step of a 9.5 cent increase that has been phased in since 2005 . It was approved by the Legislature to help fund nearly 300 projects over 16 years. Of the $8.5 billion...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
WASHINGTON -- Gas might cost more than $4 a gallon, but that hasn’t stopped three Central Florida lawmakers from leasing gas guzzlers on the taxpayers’ dime, according to a database compiled by former Orlando Sentinel reporter Sean Mussenden (now with...
On The Road To 2008 (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
I write letters. This one only made it to the Seattke Times' online page : Louise Pasche wants the final gas-tax increase that was approved by voters when they overwhelming defeated Initiative 912, a whopping 1.5 cents per gallon, to be canceled [" Washington's gas tax ," Times, Northwest Voices, June 23]. At present prices, that would be a mere one-third of 1 percent the cost of a gallon of gas. The...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WGL Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:WGL), the parent company of Washington Gas and other energy-related subsidiaries, has been named for the 2nd
Examiner (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
The District government has paid Washington Gas up to $700,000 annually in late fees over many years for failing to remit its gas bills within 20 days of the due date.
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Charles Krauthammer Friday, June 20, 2008 WASHINGTON -- Gas is $4 a gallon. Oil is $135 a barrel and rising. We import two-thirds of our oil, sending hundreds of billions of dollars to the likes of Russia, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. And yet we voluntarily prohibit ourselves from even exploring huge domestic reserves of petroleum and natural gas. At a time when U.S. crude oil production has fallen...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
WASHINGTON -- Gas is $4 a gallon. Oil is $135 a barrel and rising. We import two-thirds of our oil, sending hundreds of billions of dollars to the likes of Russia, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. And yet we voluntarily prohibit ourselves from even exploring huge domestic reserves of petroleum and natural gas. At a time when U.S. crude oil production has fallen 40 percent in the last 25 years, 75 billion...
