Gas Pushed August Inflation Up. Your Power Bill Is Next

Consumer prices rose 0.4% in August, four times July's pace, with gasoline doing most of the work while the annual rate held at 3.4%. In Rhode Island, the national pickup lands on households already paying 29 cents per kilowatt-hour and facing a pending 15% winter supply-rate increase.

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