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Speaker 1: National Grid is looking to raise prices again.

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Speaker 2: Of course they are, of course, yeah no.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, as much as twelve percent per customer, based on

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Speaker 3: a proposal to the State Department of Public Utilities.

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Speaker 4: We can't afford no more. It's enough already.

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Speaker 5: I don't think it's going to go over with a

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Speaker 5: lot of people.

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Speaker 3: According to that statement by the utility, the rate increases

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Speaker 3: would raise an extra one hundred and forty four million,

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Speaker 3: which would be used to support critical upgrades across the

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Speaker 3: National Grid network to keep service for gas dependable for

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Speaker 3: customers across the Commonwealth.

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Speaker 5: Heard it.

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Speaker 2: They always say that, don't they.

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Speaker 1: Chris Fama, WBZ, Boston's news radio