NYC landlord switching to dirtier heating oil because of soaring Con Ed gas bill: ‘I’m tapped out’
Story by Carl Campanile • 11h
A landlord in Queens is so fed up with his sky-high gas heating bills from Con Ed that he’s switching to dirtier home heating oil to warm one of his buildings.
Residential-building owner John Norton blamed New York’s “green” mandates, which he said are forcing customers such as himself to abandon natural gas by making it more expensive.
“I can’t afford the gas bills anymore — I’m tapped out,” Norton said, acknowledging he is already struggling to pay what he owes — as the utility revealed it only hopes to squeeze more out of consumers with new whopping rate hikes unveiled last week.
Norton, also a licensed plumber, provided The Post with a copy of a recent Con Ed bill that revealed the cost to deliver gas to one of his three six-family residential buildings was a staggering three times more than the price of the gas supply itself.
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