to offer (usually something intangible): to proffer friendship Origin of proffer Middle English profren from Anglo-French and Old French proffrir from poroffrir from por-, pro- + offrir from Vulgar Latin an unverified form offerire, for Classical Latin offerre, to offer
TOTAL. Natural gas is measured in therms or BTUs. A therm is a measurement of the amount of heat energy in natural gas, equal to 100,000 BTUs. A BTU, or British Thermal Unit, is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit. The current charge for natural gas from Peoples Gas is $0.3641 per therm. If you would like to change the rate used in the calculations above, enter a new rate below. $ per therm.
Also, prices for heating products vary regionally. In Boston, 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas costs $17.60, compared with $13.02 in Minneapolis. At those prices, if all Bostonians switched to natural gas, theyâd save $622 a year on average, which, while good, doesnât seem enough to motivate large-scale change.