Plain answers about changing the price on your gas bill in Virginia. Changing your price never turns off your gas.
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If someone calls or knocks and says any of these, you can hang up or close the door.
Judy Saves will never call you or knock on your door.
Virginia doesn't publish a list of company prices for homes.
So Judy compares your price with your utility's standard price. That is the price you pay if you never picked another company.
If another company's price is higher than the standard price, Judy tells you how to go back.
Columbia Gas of Virginia calls it the Price to Compare and posts it on its CHOICE page.
Washington Gas posts its purchased gas cost for each month.
Columbia Gas usually changes its price every three months. Washington Gas changes its price every month.
Both are the price for the gas itself, per therm. Delivery charges are the same whoever sells you the gas.
No. Your gas company still delivers your gas and still sends your bill.
Only the price for the gas itself changes.
Yes. After a company signs you up, your gas company mails you a notice.
You have 10 days after it is mailed to cancel for free. Call your gas company to cancel.
Ask too whether there is a fee to leave the plan later.
No. Judy Saves never calls you or knocks on your door.
If someone says they are from Judy Saves, hang up.
Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC)
Call them about pushy sellers, a switch you did not ask for, or other problems. Monday to Friday, 8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Virginia Attorney General's Consumer Protection Section
The state office that helps people with problems with companies, including pushy sellers. Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Your gas company. Call about your gas, your bill, or going back to the standard price.
Columbia Gas of Virginia
Check your bill for the hours to call.
Washington Gas (Virginia)
Check your bill for the hours to call.
Call your gas company if you smell gas, or to go back to its standard price.
Its number is on your bill.
Each answer comes from the state's own rules and fact sheets, or from the utility's own pages.
Short videos from Judy. Each answer is written under its video. A video plays from YouTube only when you tap it.
False. It changes about every 3 months. It's now 35.99¢ per therm.
Checked Oct 10, 2026Columbia Gas of Virginia