November 24, 2025–Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)–When discussing inflation and the state of the U.S. economy, news reporters, analysts and some politicians often use a simple term, “gas and groceries,” as a proxy for the health of the nation’s $30 trillion economy.
“Electric bills” increasingly are being added to “gas and groceries” as a new way to summarize the challenges facing consumers. U.S. electricity companies have been on an investment surge in recent years, and those outlays are in various stages of being recovered from consumers via electricity prices.
