Gas Producers Feel the Heat

Inventories are mounting, prices are falling, and the debt is still there.
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While the Northeast is experiencing an unseasonably warm winter, natural gas companies are praying for cold.

Cold weather, of course, means more demand and higher prices for the 50 percent of Americans who heat their homes with gas. It also offers producers a chance to syphon off some of their ample inventories.