The soaring cost of energy was on the ballot in recent special elections and will likely play a key role in the Midterms — and it’s not hard to understand why.
The most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Consumer Price Index report showed that while the overall inflation rate is 2.4% for the 12 months ending in January, electricity prices rose by 6.3% and natural gas increased by 9.8% during the same period.
