Natural Gas Is Hot Again — How Bad Was the 'Polar Vortex'?

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How much natural gas did the U.S. burn during the "polar vortex"? Traders pushing the price of natural gas sharply higher this morning think A whole heck of a lot.

The 10:30 a.m. release by the U.S. Energy Information Administration is expected to show a record utilities pulled a record 299 billion cubic feet of natural gas from storage in the week ending Jan. 10, reports Brett Philbin of Dow Jones Newswires. Moreover, we may have another cold snap coming, Philbin reports: