Monthly natural gas bill for heating a 2-bedroom house in Los Angeles, 70 degrees by day, 64 degrees at night, outside temperatures never below 50s? $426.96. Fourfold increase in 1 month. Electric rate up also. Germans have a word for it: Energiearmut, energy poverty. Welcome to the Green Revolution. They claim to be saving the planet, but you’ll have to save yourself…if you can.