Natural gas prices are WAY down right now, so your bill should be reasonable. Electric prices, on the other hand, are going up (Thank you AEP) making an electric home something you may want to avoid simply for cost reasons. There are lots of reasons why this is happening, but essentially it boils down to this...Columbia gas customer pay what is essentially a variable market rate. Gas is down, your bill is down. Electric customers pay what is essentially a fixed tarriff rate, which means that regardless what the market does, your prices will remain essentially the same. Market goes down, AEP gets paid. I could go into way more detail, but those are the nuts and bolts.