Then the price of natural gas quadrupled and California was hit with rolling blackouts.
In just a few days, gasoline prices went to $3.70, from $1.50, and the price of rice quadrupled.
The price quadrupled and, like any other commodity, the more the price went up, the less it was used.
The price to buy a cable company has more than quadrupled since deregulation, he added.
The price of natural gas, the main source for new generation, has quadrupled in the last year.
The price of food has quadrupled since we arrived.
His only consolation was that prices had nearly quadrupled since he last sold.
In the last year, prices have quadrupled for some of them, to more than $40,000 a tire.
Meanwhile, the price of Microsoft's shares has more than quadrupled.
One account suggested that the price of copper had quadrupled from 2002 to 2006.