Denison is a town of about 180 people that now owes about $241,400 in gas bills, which is double the $125,000 it paid for gas in all of 2020. Vickie Wold, Denison city council president, said the Kansas Attorney General’s Office is opening an investigation into price gouging during a disaster, but that might not help Denison in time. “That’ll take time, we know that. We are going to have a bill coming that we can’t pay,” she said. “We could lose our city status.” Wold said the Kansas Municipal Gas Association could get a loan big enough for all 49 municipalities it represents to help them pay off the bills, which would ease the burden on residents.
Source: CJonline.com.
