Most of us want to encourage others to ditch fossil fuels whenever possible. Of course, most of us aren’t natural gas executives. Oklahoma Natural Gas, which serves nearly 1 million customers across the state, would like to keep people hooked up to its service, and it has a novel idea for how to do that: Charge an absurdly expensive “exit fee.”
According to a report from HuffPost, Oklahoma Natural Gas has proposed charging $1,400 to disconnect a customer’s gas services, including stoves and heating systems, so they can switch to electric.
