Source: Elizabeth Razzi, Washington Post ( Free Registration )

You know it’s coming. This winter’s heating bills are going to be stupendous, whether you burn oil, natural gas or kilowatts. If you’re going to do anything to minimize those bills, time’s a-wasting, beach bum.

For the first three months of 2009, people in the Washington area can expect heating oil and natural gas prices nearly 35 percent higher than they were during the comparable period this year, according to an Energy Department forecast released last week. Electricity could be 10 percent higher. (Virginians have already overshot that forecast; Dominion Virginia Power recently raised electricity rates 18 percent.)

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